[Lazarus] No FPC sources on lazarus start....

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

David Emerson wrote:
> Sounds like you installed the compiler part, but not the fpc sources.
> 
> Try here: http://www.freepascal.org/down/source/sources.var
> 
> On Mon 3 Jan 2011, Bo Berglund wrote:
>> I installed FPC on Win XP-Pro from the 2.4.2 installer.
>> Then I retrieved the lazarus sources from SVN.
>> Then I did make clean all for lazarus.
>> All this worked OK.
>>
>> But now when I start lazarus it complains about missing fpc sources
>> and it looks like the fpc 2.4.2 does indeed *not* deposit any source
>> files...
>> At least I cannot find any in the dir I installed FPC into. All
>> subfolders there are:
>> bin
>> demo
>> doc
>> examples
>> msg
>> units (which does not contain the sources)
>>
>> So no source folder. :-(
>>
>> What can I do now?

I don't know whether this is any help and it is oriented towards Linux, 
but I'd add that I normally build FPC from source, in part because doing 
so is a good test that the compiler is working on the machine in 
question. Having done so I do a  make install  and check that the 
symlink in /usr/local/bin is OK, then  make clean and copy the fpcsrc 
directory into the appropriate place in /usr/local/lib (I'm being 
intentionally vague here since this will vary depending on version number).

Having done that, one is left with a consistent tree of binaries and 
source. Start Lazarus with the --pcp= option so that the IDE you're 
running uses a private configuration file that specifies how it can find 
the matching compiler.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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