[Lazarus] CodeCompletion: Unit not found, compile ok

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 18:30:57 +0000
Lukas Gradl <fpc at ssn.at> wrote:

> I've a strange problem with Lazarus (1.3, SVN 45936M):
> 
> Im working on a Linux-X64-Workstation but the target of the current  
> project is Win32/i386.
> 
> I have a TDBGrid (dbgFolderDocs) on my form.
> 
> I can compile the project, it runs correctly.
> 
> But while coding when I press the . in the line
> for i:=0 to dbgFolderDocs.SelectedRows
> an error occurs (it's german, i translated it, so it might be not the  
> exact english error message):
> Codetools, Error: 1
> dbgrids.pas(37,65) Error: Unit not found: Variants
> 
> How can this be - the compiler can find the unit.

Variants is a standard FPC unit.

If compiling works, but the IDE cannot find the unit, it means the IDE
cannot find it in the FPC Sources.

Check View / IDE Internals / About IDE:

FPC source directory
Real FPC source directory

Mattias