[Lazarus] LibC

[matt shaffer]

BAH! I completely forgot in the last email (due to my large rant), but if
you couldn't tell I did find and install unit libc happily.

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 10:01 AM, matt shaffer <dazappa.matt at gmail.com>wrote:

> Unit libc. AFAIK no, Ubuntu doesn't distribute FPC over tons of packages,
> but I just installed everything (FPC/Laz + sources) from one package).
>
> On a somewhat related note, I'm done trying to develop anything interesting
> on Linux. After installing ~10 extra random dependencies to build OGL apps,
> everything's still being a pain. There's basically no libraries to make
> things 3D, so I was trying out GLScene. First, the actual package itself +
> demos have sources that are nearly compatible with Linux, but require just a
> tiny bit of editing (GLLCLViewer to GLViewer, for instance in the uses
> claus). Found out the hard way that unless the app is built as GTK1, double
> buffering seems to fail. And after installing the GLScene package, every app
> that uses glscene wants to rebuild all of glscene before it compiles the
> stupid demos! And there are a lot of demos that are broken even though
> they're supposed to work... *Throws in towel*. If anything, I'll stick to 2d
> on Linux using my favorite little buddy, Andorra 2D.
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl>wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 10:48:13PM -0400, matt shaffer wrote:
>> > I've come across a few projects now that require libc on Linux. I'm
>> using
>> > the latest Ubuntu (9.04) + Lazarus (9.26-4), and it says it can't find
>> libc.
>>
>> Library libc or unit libc?  Is Ubuntu one of those distributions that
>> fragment FPC over umpteen packages? If so, see if there is a separate one
>> for the "libc" unit. (which is a Kylix legacy package)
>>
>> Note that it would be wisest to get rid of libc alltogether, because it is
>> linux/x86 only.
>>
>> If you are using 64-bit Ubuntu, that might even be the cause of your
>> problem. More info:
>>
>> http://wiki.freepascal.org/libc_unit
>>
>> > After doing some basic research, it looks like this would be dependent
>> upon
>> > the compiler? How can I download and setup libc so Lazarus will compile
>> apps
>> > that use it happily? I cannot find a lot of information on this
>>
>> Install the deb, if Lazarus uses a wildcard in its FPC searchpath, the
>> rest
>> will go automatically.
>>
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