[Lazarus] Fatal: Can't open include file "lcl_defines.inc"

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sat, 31 May 2014 14:03:54 +0200
Giuliano Colla <giuliano.colla at fastwebnet.it> wrote:

> As of Lazarus 1.3 r45254M FPC 2.6.2 i386-linux-gtk 2
> I'm unable to compile a package which used to compile without troubles.
> 
> The error shown is:
> /home/colla/Applicazioni/lazarus/lcl/lclproc.pas(22,2) Fatal: Can't open 
> include file "lcl_defines.inc"
> 
> Adding
> 
> $(LazarusDir)/lcl/include

Never add search paths pointing to directories of packages. Use the
package instead.

 
> to the paths in the package compiler options doesn't help.
> I also tried adding the lcl/include path to the open project compiler 
> options (just in case) but no change.
> 
> Editing the lclproc file to
> {$I include/lcl_defines.inc}

Never do that either, because of that:

> only takes one step forward: lclproc.pas compiles, but next file which 
> includes from lcl/include doesn't.
> 
> The full IDE compilation, if I don't include my custom package, is 
> carried on without troubles.
> 
> Any hint?

Maybe your custom package is misconfigured. Remove all search paths in
your package and add "IDEIntf" to the dependencies instead.

Mattias