[lazarus] Problems running Lazarus

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 16:00:04 +0100  Mattias Gaertner
<nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 00:37:05 +1000  prologic at shortcircuit.net.au (James
> Mills) wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 12:22:14PM +0100, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > > On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 20:26:03 +1000  prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
> > > (James Mills) wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > I recently just grabbed the CVS sources and tried to compile
> > > > lazarus:
> > > > 
> > > > (gdb) run
> > > > Starting program:
> > > > /home/prologic/programming/temp/lazarus/lazarus/lazarus 
> > > > TApplication.HandleException Range check error
> > > 
> > > You compiled lazarus with range checking on. I added some explicit
> > > type casts. I don't know, how to fix all the range check warnings
> > > nice.
> > > 
> > > For example, I need a type for the TStream.Size. Any ideas?
> > 
> > I compiled Lazarus with the default make options.
> > ie: make
> > 
> > I notice then that the default make options are with Range Checking on.
> > I will try and recompile with them turned off.
> > 
> > As for your question, I have no idea at this stange as I don't
> > understand the code well enough (but that may change) :)
> 
> Ok, that was a very short mail.
> 
> The range checking is probably from your global fpc.cfg. Range checking is
> a good thing and lazarus should run and compile fine, but it does not. :(

I have fixed a big part of the range check warnings. 
Lazarus can now be compiled with range checking under linux/gtk.


Mattias