[Lazarus] IDE can't find various LCL unit

[David Copeland]

On 07/02/2013 11:09 AM, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 10:38:13 -0400
> David Copeland <david.copeland at jsidata.ca> wrote:
>
>> Recently, the IDE has been having trouble finding various units within
>> the LCL. I tried searching the bug tracker but could not find this issue.
>>
>> I use fpc 2.6.2, and use Lazarus from svn. I updated this morning to
>> revision 41964. The OS is Suse 12.2 / x86_64.
>>
>> What happens is ... Whenever I try to navigate to an event handler of a
>> control I get an error ...
>> /home/david.copeland/projects/lazarus/lcl/controls.pp(38,36) Error: unit
>> not found: types
>> The controls.pp source file is opened and the unit clause is
>> highlighted. Sometimes it is the gettext in the Forms unit that is not
>> found. Also, I am not sure, but I think this started when I upgraded fpc
>> from 2.6.0 to 2.6.2.
> The unit types is part of fpc.
> In that case the IDE can not use search paths to find the source, but
> instead uses its scan results of the fpc sources (Tools / Rescan FPC
> source directory).
>
> Have you tried Tools / Rescan FPC source directory?
I tried this. The "problem" is now that the include file sysutilsh.inc
in sysutils cannot be found, or sometimes other include files, or even
TComponent.

>
> Check View / IDE Internals / About FPC.
> It should list the full filename of types.ppu.
It does. It is: types=/usr/lib64/fpc/2.6.2/units/x86_64-linux/rtl/types.ppu

>  
>> For example, and more specifically say I click on a Button in some Form.
>> Then in the Object Inspector I click on the Event tab, then click on the
>> "On Click" line to get the ... to show. It is at this point  the "error"
>> occurs. However, the ... are shown and I can click on them to navigate
>> to the handler. I can build my application and it runs. As long as the
>> project remains open the "error" does not reoccur. But if I open another
>> project I get this "error" on the first attempt to navigate to an event
>> handler.
> Maybe the project has some strange defines. For instance
> targetos=win32.
>
Not that I can see. I develop exclusively on/for Linux.
>  
>> When the handler already exists this is an annoyance. But if I try
>> creating a handler for a new control  the behavior is different. When I
>> click on the ... in the Object Inspector I get a message dialog with the
>> the message "Unable to find method. Please fix the error shown in the
>> message window, which in normally below the source editor."  That error
>> is "Error: Unit not found: Classes". Also the file LCLClasses is opened
>> in the editor. This happens every time I try to create the handler in
>> this way. I can manually add the handler and the application builds
>> normally. However, the manually added handler is not visible in the
>> object inspector, even if I restart the IDE.
>>
>> I hope this is enough info. I can file a bug report if needed.
>
> Mattias
>
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