[Lazarus] Cannot find inc file from a registered package...

[John Landmesser]

Am 24.06.20 um 15:39 schrieb Bo Berglund via lazarus:
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 22:40:19 +0300, Juha Manninen via lazarus
> <lazarus at lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
>
>> Is the path containing the include file (Indy10\System or similar) in
>> Indy package's include search path?
>> If not then please add it.
>> Otherwise it sounds like a bug. Unit files are found from required
>> packages but apparently include files are not. Please report a bug
>> with steps to reproduce.
>>
> To answer your question:
>
> So I re-enabled the include and added a path below packages to it as
> follows:
>
> interface
> {$I Indy10\System\IdCompilerDefines.inc}
> {$I ssremote.inc}
>
>
> uses
> ....
>
> class_SSRemoteServer.pas(84,2) Fatal: Cannot open include file
> "Indy10\System\IdCompilerDefines.inc"
>
> Same with \ as with / as delimiter.
>
> Butit worked when I did this, , but triggered other errors from inside
> the inc file:
>
> {$I
> C:\Programs\Lazarus_2.0.8\config\onlinepackagemanager\packages\Indy10\System\IdCompilerDefines.inc}
>
> Now working but the source file is cluttered with an installation path
> that should not be there.
>
> So I then went into project options/compiler options/paths
> and I added this to the include path setting:
>
> C:\Programs\Lazarus_2.0.8\config\onlinepackagemanager\packages\
>
> Then I changed the source file include statement to:
> {$I Indy10\System\IdCompilerDefines.inc}
>
> This too worked, the file was found and parsed.
>
> So this is the best solution, one has to remember to change it when
> the project moves to a different lazarus version or platform.
>
> It would have been good to be able to set something like $PACKAGEDIR
> to C:\Programs\Lazarus_2.0.8\config\onlinepackagemanager\packages\ in
> a Lazarus global context so all package files could be reached using
> the env var. It then has to be set Lazarus globally like is possible
> in Delphi.
> But I found no such way...
>
> HTH
>
>

Hi Bo,

Never used Indy 10 but just installed it with Online Package Manager on

Lazarus 2.1.0 r63354 FPC 3.0.4 x86_64-linux-gtk2


.. no probs with paths!

regards

John