[Lazarus] Cannot compile console application, why?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 6 Jul 2020, Bo Berglund via lazarus wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 07:20:08 +0200 (CEST), Michael Van Canneyt via
> lazarus <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
>
>> I suggest to remove indylaz from the uses clause. 
>> It pulls in some GUI related code, probably some design-time stuff.
>>
> So I have done this:
> - deleted the uses indylaz in the lpr file
> - removed the LCLbase from project required packages
>
> Still the same behaviour. LCLbase was not there to begin with, I added
> it as a wild guess but it did nothing so is now removed.
>
> Next I started removing uses clauses one by one in the
> remoteserver.pas unit where the indy functionality is located and when
> I had removed these two it did build!
>
>  //StdCtrls,
>  //IdBaseComponent,

StdCtrls :-)

That's what I said, you have GUI dependencies in your code...


> QUESTION:
> ---------
> What is the correct way to start a new project that is just a console
> no GUI type program intended to be run as a systemd service on Linux?
> There are several types of programs to choose from and I have not
> understood the difference between:
> - Simple Program
> - Program
> - Console application

They are exactly the same functionally, they just differ in terms of what start code is
generated.

Michael.