[lazarus] Building Lazarus in Winblows

[Michael.VanCanneyt at Wisa.be]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Tony Maro wrote:

>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: michael at Wisa.be [mailto:michael at Wisa.be] On Behalf Of
>
> > No. It needs a preprocessor, which is gcc by default.
> > However, you can use 'fprcp' for that, this comes with FPC.
> >
> > Usage:
> > windres --preprocessor fprcp.exe  ...
> >
> > Michael.
> >
>
> Okay, I was able to do that from the command prompt to compile my
> lazarus icon resource.  Unfortunately the makefile was adding the
> --preprocessor option but not adding fprcp.exe after it.  By the way I
> never did find windres.exe on the FPC site... I had to google it.
>
> Now I get:
>
> Compiling debugmanager.pas
> Compiling mainbar.pas
> Compiling .\debugger\callstackdlg.pp
> Compiling viewunit_dlg.pp
> Compiling aboutfrm.pas
> Compiling resource lazarus.res
> Linking .\lazarus.exe
> lazarus.pp(86,1) Error: Util asw.exe not found, switching to external
> linking
> Closing script .\ppas.bat
> make[1]: *** [lazarus.exe] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `C:/lazarus/lazarus'
> make: *** [ide] Error 2
>
> C:\lazarus\lazarus>
>
>
> I've searched everywhere and don't see an asw.exe file either in the
> huge download of 1.0.6 or inside the files for 1.0.8 that I've
> downloaded.

It should be included nevertheless, and should be installed in
the <fpc-root>/bin/win32 directory ?

Michael.