[Lazarus] Lazarus and bigide

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:43:55 +0000
Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:

> Mattias Gärtner wrote:
> > Zitat von Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk>:
> > 
> >> I've got Lazarus installed on a number of systems, and in some cases 
> >> (when I last checked) I could only build the standard IDE- not the 
> >> bigide additions.
> > 
> > What is the problem? Any error message?
> > What system (os, lazarus, fpc version)?
> 
> I'd have to check, and I'd rather not get too embroiled in that today. 
> Working from memory, something like Linux on SPARC, 0.9.26, 2.2.4 and 
> problems with libc when when making with bigide.

I'm not sure if bigide was properly tested on sparc.

 
> >> If I want to move a project between development systems, some of which 
> >> might have bigide and others not, is best practice to avoid using 
> >> components which appear on the bigide pages of the palette (i.e. to 
> >> create objects at run time rather than at design time)?
> > 
> > The bigide components are the most stable. There should be no problem to 
> > install them.
> 
> I'd be very happy to run a Lazarus make with bigide on the various Linux 
> systems (x86, SPARC, PPC and ARM) I've got here and report back, but I 
> suspect that that could uncover subsidiary issues that wouldn't be 
> entirely welcome :-/ It would also be fairly slow, since some of these 
> aren't exactly top specification.

As the lazarus developers have only spare access to sparc, arm and
powerpc I beg you tell what runs and what not, so we can setup the right
bigide package set for those platforms.

 
> Which is why, if there's any doubt at all, I'd far prefer to simply 
> avoid design-time initialisation of suspect components.


Mattias