[Lazarus] Components dcu?

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:21:15 +0200
Chavoux Luyt <chavoux at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Michael
> 
> On 29 August 2012 09:50, Michael Schnell <mschnell at lumino.de> wrote:
> 
> > On 08/28/2012 04:23 PM, Chavoux Luyt wrote:
> >
> >> I remember reading a long time ago that Lazarus has to be rebuilt
> >> whenever a new component is added. I know that this is not necessary in
> >> Delphi.
> >>
> > Recompiling is just part of the normal process of installing a package
> > that provides one or more visual components. I feel you hardly notice it if
> > you don't look too close and just click OK. :-) .
> >
> > So what is the problem ?
> 
> My real problem was getting my Delphi Components to work in Lazarus without
> breaking the whole IDE. It seems like the best thing to do is to just
> backup the lazarus executable before trying to add the new component?

Yes. The IDE creates one backup for you, named lazarus.old(.exe).

If you loose your backup executable:
You can build the default IDE without extra packages with:
make clean all

Mattias