[Lazarus] 0.9.26 (FPC 2.2.2) on Slackware and Debian

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Andrew Haines wrote:

>> Now this is a completely virgin Debian system, it's never had 
>> Debian-served FPC or Lazarus packages installed and I've got a fairly 
>> good record of what's been put onto it and what changes there were in 
>> /usr/lib.
>>
>> So would somebody please tell me what I'm doing stupid.
> 
> You have to install the -dev packages like gtk2-dev etc. the dev 
> packages make the symlinks for you.

Thanks Andrew, I'll work on it. Is there a way of deducing what packages 
need to be installed rather than trying anything that looks relevant? So 
far I'm working through package dependencies of the Debian Lazarus and 
FPC packages.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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