[Lazarus] Broken cross compile build.

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Mon, 17 May 2010 11:48:36 +0200 (CEST)
Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Mon, 17 May 2010, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 17 May 2010 11:14:31 +0200 (CEST)
> > Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, 17 May 2010, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Mon, 17 May 2010 06:41:48 +0200
> >>> cobines <cobines at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> It's reported in Mantis.
> >>>>
> >>>> http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=16389
> >>>> http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=15699
> >>>>
> >>>> The solution is to copy the needed .lfm files manually to the units
> >>>> directory, where FPC can find them.
> >>>
> >>> That is a workaround.
> >>>
> >>> Both bug reports are in the category Lazarus, but they are FPC
> >>> issues. We need create to a FPC bug report otherwise they will never
> >>> be fixed.
> >>
> >> Why ? The .lfm files are source files, not compiled files.
> >>
> >> You must do the same in Delphi: copy all needed .res and .dcu files to
> >> the search path.
> >>
> >> So I don't think that this is a bug; It's a consequence of using different
> >> paths for sources and compiled files.
> >
> > I can't follow. Above you say the lfm is a source and now
> > you say we should add it to the path of the compiled files.
> >
> > Does that mean, that we must pass the -Fu paths as -Fo paths
> > again?
> 
> No, I'm just saying that I don't think this is a bug in the compiler.
> 
> The compiler must be able to find the files it needs to create
> an executable. It's the job of the user/IDE to put the files where
> the compiler can find them.

The compiler can find them and normally puts the lfm files into the
output directory.
Apparently sometimes it does not.
Maybe it has to do with the sub directory in the $R directive.

{$R forms/finddlgunit.lfm}
{$R forms/replacedlgunit.lfm}

I don't see what the IDE can do.

Mattias