[Lazarus] event code tool compilation error

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:11:01 -0200
"fluisgirardi at gmail.com" <fluisgirardi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Some hours ago, I updated my lazarus version via svn. After wait it
> completes, I tried rebuild Lazarus without success. The error is
> 
> ...
> Compiling eventcodetool.pas
> eventcodetool.pas(127,9) Fatal: Syntax error, ")" expected but "," found
> Fatal: Compilation aborted
> make[2]: ** [codetools.ppu] Erro 1
> make[2]: Saindo do diretório `/home/fabiolg/lazarus/components/codetools'
> make[1]: ** [codetools_all] Erro 2
> make[1]: Saindo do diretório `/home/fabiolg/lazarus/components'
> make: ** [components] Erro 2
> fabiolg at darkstar3:~/lazarus$
> 
> 
> I see the file and I found this:
> 
> const
>   MethodKindAsString: array[TMethodKind] of shortstring = (
>         'procedure', 'function', 'constructor', 'destructor',
>         'class procedure', 'class function'
>         {$IFNDEF VER2_4}
>         ,'class constructor', 'class destructor'
>         {$ENDIF}
>         {$IFDEF VER2_5}
>         ,'operator overload'
>         {$ENDIF}
>       );
> 
> but I can't see anything wrong...
> 
> I searched the wiki and the bugtracker, but I found anything. On
> google, on some pages is wrote that to solve this, I have to update my
> FPC (my previous version of FPC is 2.5.1 of november of 2010). I
> updated it but the error persists.
> 
> Some Idea?

You need a recent 2.5.1 or a released 2.4.2 or a recent 2.4.3.

The 'operator overload' came some weeks ago to 2.5.1.

Mattias