linker error Making lazarus
lazarus / 1-Linux

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David · 2006-05-22 13:50

Hi, I'm crossposting with the mailing list (sorry if I shouldn't).

I'm trying to install lazarus (for over a week - new on Linux too) and
now I get this error:

QuoteFree Pascal Compiler version 2.0.2 [2005/12/07] for i386
Copyright (c) 1993-2005 by Florian Klaempfl
Target OS: Linux for i386
Compiling lazarus.pp
Linking ../lazarus
lazarus.pp(113,1) Error: Can't call the linker, switching to external
linking
make[2]: *** [lazarus] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/win-c/pascal-linux/lazarus/ide'
make[1]: *** [ide] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/win-c/pascal-linux/lazarus/ide'
make: *** [ide] Error 2


Any ideas??

Thanks.
David.

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eric · 2006-05-25 10:07

It looks as though your system hasn't got a linker installed. You need
the gnu binutils package.

Eric

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jgrace5 · 2006-05-31 20:53

I have debian unstable with the latest goodies, fpc 2.0.2 installed
and working and the glib and gtk and pixbuf and whatever installed.
 The lazarus that I can install from the rpm with alien doesn't work
on its own because it can't find libglib-1.2.so.  So I try a rebuild
from the source included in /usr/lib/lazarus. 

When linking the source to lazarus in the /usr/lib/lazarus directory,
I get
"-lglib not found".  Ok, I made a link of libglib.a -> libglib-2.0.a,
libgdk_pixbuf.a -> libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.a and libgdk.a ->
libgdk_x11-2.0.a, etc.

Now the linker finds the libraries or doesn't complain anymore.
 However, after 15 seconds of thinking about it, the linker "explodes"
with a million lines of cannot find g_this and cannot find g_that and
cannot find gdk_that and cannot find cairo_blah (about 60 lines of
compaints). 

What's my mistake here?

Jason

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Vincent Snijders · 2006-05-31 21:16

You made symlinks to gtk2 libs instead of gtk(1) libs.

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Anonymous · 2006-06-01 00:27

Yes, perhaps this should be prominent in the README or FAQ, but GTK2
support in Lazarus is incomplete and not a priority. Stick with GTK1
and you shouldn't have any major problems.

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Anonymous · 2006-06-01 15:23

Why doesn't Debian have the symbolic links already for the libraries?

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Anonymous · 2006-06-06 12:16

That's a good question. The same is true for Suse 9.3. For some
reasons also the links in /usr/X11R6/lib to
libX11 and libXi are missing. They have symlinks from libfoo.so.x to
libfoo.x.yy, but some of the libfoo.so to libfoo.so.x
are missing. Quiet annoying.

Ciao
Tom