[Lazarus] Zeoslib libc error

[Matt Henley]

As per one of the notes in the forum, I replaced the libc calls with
baseunix and it compiled and installed fine. Will try to set up a
database server and test tonight.

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 01:07:11PM -0600, Matt Henley wrote:
>> I have lazarus installed (svn as of this morning), compiled as amd64
>> on linux.  I just downloaded and tried to install the
>> ZEOSDBO-6.6.4-stable.
>>
>> When I try to install the package, I get this error on compilation:
>
>> Fatal: Can't find unit libc used by ZPlainLoader
>
> This is correct, this is a linux/i386 only unit. See
> http://wiki.freepascal.org/libc_unit
>
>> There is an entry in the forum which mentions this (
>> http://zeos.firmos.at/viewtopic.php?t=1994 ) and they say that libc is
>> not needed.
>
> Read that link better, it is not needed in SVN versions, and that change is
> not yet in releases.
>
>> Should I just comment out references to libc in the
>> source files or is there something else I need to do?  I don't want to
>> create an unstable version of zeoslib.
>
> Use a more recent (SVN) ZEOS version, or replace them with calls from the
> relevant FPC units. (see above wiki link to get an eye of which units
> qualify)
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