[Lazarus] Lazarus 0.9.25 snapshot 20080831 for Mac OS X fails to run

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:47:21 +0200
Tom Verhoeff <T.Verhoeff at tue.nl> wrote:

> I installed Lazarus 0.9.25 for Carbon on Mac OS X 10.5.2 (Intel
> machine). I downloaded today's snapshot from
> <http://www.hu.freepascal.org/lazarus/>, i.e. 20080831; including FPC
> and its sources (version 2.2.2), in the order FPC, FPC sources,
> Lazarus.
> 
> And though Lazarus starts up, it does not work properly.  Its main
> menu bar never appears, its icon does nog show up in the dock, its
> windows do not respond to mouse clicks, except for clicking some of
> the icons on them (like Open ...).  I did manage to open an existing
> hello project, but running it failed with a complaint near 'uses ...
> Interfaces'.

You must start the bundle (lazarus icon in finder), or the executable in
the bundle (/usr/.../lazarus.app/Contents/MacOS/lazarus), but
not the executable outside the bundle.

 
> All Lazarus windows do open, it writes out a long list of debug info
> lines on the terminal, it does show up under 'top' in a terminal
> window, and in the Activity Monitor it is listed under the inactive
> processes.
> 
> What could be wrong here?
> 
> How I am supposed to start this Carbon version?  I just ran it
> from /usr/local/bin in a terminal window.  I also tried with 'open
> lazarus'.
> 
> What happened to an earlier installed version (I had a working
> 0.9.24 for powerpc installed)?  It probably got overwritten; is that
> problametic for the new 0.9.25?

Yes, this could be problematic. Better delete the lazarus directory and
install 0.9.25 again.

Mattias