[Lazarus] porting delphi project code

Juha Manninen juha.manninen62 at gmail.com
Tue May 21 19:15:48 CEST 2013


I updated the wiki page, although it was not causing your problems.
Your FPC/Lazarus configuration is somehow screwed. Test it first
before converting anything.

Juha


On 5/21/13, waldo kitty <wkitty42 at windstream.net> wrote:
> On 5/16/2013 02:11, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>> On 15-5-2013 20:19, waldo kitty wrote:
>>>
>>> can someone please give me the steps, in simple layman's terms, that are
>>> needed to convert a delphi project or application code to Lazarus/FPC? i
>>> have never run delphi and have not the first clue other than there is
>>> some sort of convertor available... where it is and how to use it are
>>> completely unknown to myself...
>>
>> The wiki helps as usual:
>> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Delphi_Converter_in_Lazarus
>
> in this case, it does not... it seems to be out of date, as well... the
> picture
> of the "Convert Delphi Settings" dialogue shows four targets but what i have
>
> shows only two... mine are
>
>    Cross-platform (checked)
>    Support Delphi (unchecked)
>    Use the same DFM form file (greyed out)
>
>> Suggest more people try it ;)
>
> it is ok for what it is but it doesn't help all the time... my conversion
> project is not going too well at this point... i followed the above link to
> the
> wiki and it helped a little bit but it fell short as it only explains about
> the
> options in that one area but nothing else is discussed (eg: what to do when
>
> StdCtrls cannot be found)...
>
> so i searched for "delphi stdctrls" and found a section in the FAQ but it,
> too,
> falls short... again, possibly out of date??
>
> [quote]
> When accessing events of objects, e.g., the onclick event of a button, I get
> the
> following error. ERROR unit not found: stdCtrls
>
> Make sure, in the Project -> Project Inspector, that your project depends on
> the
> package "LCL" and that you have installed the FPC sources.
>
> Lazarus is the IDE and the visual components library LCL. All other stuff,
> like
> IO, Database, FCL and RTL are provided by FPC. The IDE needs the paths to
> all
> sources.
>
> The FPC source path can be set via: Environment -> Environment Options ->
> Files
> -> FPC source directory
> [/quote]
>
> 1. i don't have a project yet... i'm trying to convert a delphi project to a
>
> lazarus project.
>
> 2. about the source path... i believe it is already set correctly but the
> above
> "Environment -> Environment Options -> Files -> FPC source directory" does
> not
> appear in my lazarus ide that i can find... i have "Tools -> Options ->
> Environment -> Files -> FPC Source Directory" and it is set to
> "C:\freepascal\fpc\2.6.0\" where my SVN installation of FPC is installed...
>
> so now what? :confused:
>
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