[Lazarus] CGILazIDE cannot be found...

[Bo Berglund]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:30:08 +0100 (CET), Mattias Gaertner
<nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> wrote:
>Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> hat am 31. Januar 2011 um 16:06 geschrieben:
>
>>[..]
>> Hmmpf... After checking out lazarus there is no IDE to run, right?
>> So I cannot use any IDE dialog to specify a better way of compiling
>> since as yet there is no lazarus.exe to start.... 
>You can compile Lazarus from scratch with "make".

If you had read the conversation where this comment was made you'd
have seen that:
1) I had used make clean all already
2) Andreas had stated that using make would not build the packages and
hence I should use the built-in compile instead, which of course is
not possible following an svn checkout...
>
>>
>> > CGILazIDE is deprecated for some time now and as it seems
>> > finally gone (or renamed?). If you don't need it, kick it out ;-)
>>
>> OK, but I don't even know what it is. 
>Well, if you as developer do not know, how should the IDE know?

And this is also a rather odd comment since apparently this package
was installed by *default* in earlier versions of lazarus and has now
been removed from the sources (by the developers of lazarus) causing
the error meassage to appear.
Being a developer does not mean that one searches out each and every
item in an IDE and learns its use. I sure don't when I am just
evaluating lazarus and fpc as a development platform alternative to
Delphi...

>> Anyway, I stopped the process after answering yes to this and the
>> following similar dialogue and instead went to the rebuild of the
>> complete lazarus IDE and now I have done this and the 5dpo component
>> tab appears in the IDE, so I thought that all was done.
>> But not....
>> I cannot compile my test application, which uses sdposerial because:
>> formmain.pas(9,13) Fatal: Can't find unit SdpoSerial used by formmain
>>
>> Why can it not find it this time?
>Have you tried right click on the message and use "Search unit"?
> 
No, I did not know about such a shortcut. Instead I located the
project options and in CompilerOptions/Paths/OtherUnitFiles I added
the path to the unit file that was missing.
But I still do not know if this is the right place. It will probably
only affect this project so it has to be repeated for the next.
I would have thought that adding a component to the IDE pallet would
also make its location known to the IDE so it can find the file that
corresponds to the dropped component when compiling....


Bo Berglund