[Lazarus] Lazarus 1.6RC1 on various platforms

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 19:46:11 +0000
Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:

> The good news is that it builds with FPC 3.0.0 on:
> 
> PPC Linux, Debian "Lenny"
> Raspbian "Jessie" on RPi2
> SPARC OpenSXCE 2014 (approx. Solaris 11)
> SPARC Linux, Debian "Squeeze"
> x86 linux, Debian "Lenny" and "Jessie"
> x86_64 linux, Debian "Jessie"

Impressive. :)

 
>[...]
> An annoyance affecting all platforms above is that the timeout in the 
> "Configure Lazarus IDE" -> "Compiler" box is impossibly fast, if the 
> default isn't right about the only way to use it is to paste a prepared 
> name.

What timeout?


> Slightly more serious from my POV is that a project that created a form 
> early to set up a configuration file from a template is now giving 
> problems on all tested platforms. I'm assuming that 
> http://free-pascal-lazarus.989080.n3.nabble.com/Lazarus-A-change-in-LCL-require-your-TCustomForm-descendants-to-have-a-resource-or-to-use-a-CreateNer-td2402646.html 
> is relevant, but at present am struggling.

This is a pretty old change.
Simply use CreateNew instead of Create.

Mattias