[Lazarus] 3rd party components

[Mattias Gärtner]

Zitat von ik <idokan at gmail.com>:

> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Mattias Gärtner
> <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> wrote:
> > Zitat von ik <idokan at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> After compiling a 3rd party components, lazarus always claims that i
> >> can't find the files of the new components, however it does not happen
> >> on the components that arrive with lazarus itself.
> >> Any idea what should I do in order to make sure that the file location
> >> stored in Lazarus settings as well ?
> >
> > Has the 3rd party components a package file (.lpk) and do you use it?
>
> Yes, they all have a lpk files for runtime.
> I use "Compile" and "Install", then it recompiles Lazarus, and restart
> it with a new version containing the new component(s).
>
> > What files can not be found? The .lpk or some units?
>
> Usually units and include files.
>
> > How do you compile the package when it works?
> > Is this a design time or run time package?

How did you test, that the units can not be found?

A new project will not use all installed IDE packages.
You must put a component on a form or manually add the dependency to the
project.

Mattias