Debian 3.1 FPC 2.0.2 and creating Lazarus from SVN
lazarus / 1-Linux

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sasa · 2006-08-24 07:46

Debian 3.1
fpc-2.0.2-0.i586.rpm - last stable release
SVN Lazarus sources, rev.9738

After installed clean Debian 3.1, then FPC 2.0.2 for linux (used alien
utility to create debian package from RPM), it is failed to compile
Lazarus from SVN rev.9738:

make clean all
...
Retrieved revision with svnversion.
Created revision.inc for revision: 9738
make --assume-new=../lazarus.pp lazarus
make[2]: Entering directory `lazarus-src/ide'
/usr/bin/ppc386 -gl -Fu../lcl/units/i386-linux
-Fu../lcl/units/i386-linux/gtk
-Fu../components/codetools/units/i386-linux
-Fu../components/synedit/units/i386-linux -Fu../components/custom
-Fu../components/mpaslex -Fu../ideintf/units/i386-linux -Fu../designer
-Fu../designer/jitform/units/i386-linux -Fu../debugger -Fu../converter
-Fu../packager -Fu../packager/units/i386-linux -Fu.
-Fu/usr/lib/fpc/2.0.2/units/i386-linux/rtl
-Fu/usr/lib/fpc/2.0.2/units/i386-linux/paszlib
-Fu/usr/lib/fpc/2.0.2/units/i386-linux/netdb
-Fu/usr/lib/fpc/2.0.2/units/i386-linux/libasync
-Fu/usr/lib/fpc/2.0.2/units/i386-linux/pthreads
-Fu/usr/lib/fpc/2.0.2/units/i386-linux/fcl
-Fu/usr/lib/fpc/2.0.2/units/i386-linux/regexpr
-Fu/usr/lib/fpc/2.0.2/units/i386-linux/pasjpeg
-Fu/usr/lib/fpc/2.0.2/units/i386-linux/ibase
-Fu/usr/lib/fpc/2.0.2/units/i386-linux/postgres
-Fu/usr/lib/fpc/2.0.2/units/i386-linux/mysql
-Fu/usr/lib/fpc/2.0.2/units/i386-linux/odbc
-Fu/usr/lib/fpc/2.0.2/units/i386-linux/oracle
-Fu/usr/lib/fpc/2.0.2/units/i386-linux/sqlite -Fiinclude
-Fiinclude/linux -Fi../images -FE.. -FU../units/i386-linux
-Fl/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.5 -Fl/usr/X11R6/lib
-Fl/usr/local/lib -di386 lazarus.pp
Fatal: Can't find unit glib
Fatal: Compilation aborted

Reading FAQ regarding this problem doesn't help much - glib.ppu exists
and all seems to be in order, except fpc.cfg is not in the /etc
directory and do not exists at all. As Linux is not my primary OS, I
hope anyone is aware of step by step instructions of how to properly
prepare FPC 2.0.2 and then compile Lazarus exported from SVN on Debian
3.1, or have similar experience?

Thanks in advance.

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Vincent Snijders · 2006-08-24 07:57

Run the /usr/lib/fpc/2.0.2/samplecfg script to create a fpc.cfg.

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sasa · 2006-08-24 09:27

Thank you.

su <password>
sh /usr/lib/fpc/2.0.2/samplecfg /usr/lib/fpc/2.0.2 /etc
exit
make all clean

Following error shows:

Linking ../lazarus
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lglib
lazarus.pp(114,1) Error: Error while linking

There is a suggestion somewhere to install glib-devel. However that
package do not exists on Debian CD's (at least on first 9 I have). I
hope that exists another way to enable linking on Debian 3.1.

Thanks in advance.

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Vincent Snijders · 2006-08-24 10:59

Try to in out which package will install /usr/lib/libglib.so. It will
be a symlink to something like /usr/lib/libglib.so.1.x.y

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sasa · 2006-08-24 17:17

Make process for Debian 3,1 require several more packages. Complete
list:

libglib1.2-dev    Development files for GLib library
libgtk1.2-dev     Development files for the GIMP Toolkit
libgdk-pixbuf-dev The GdkPixBuf library - development files
libgdk-pixbuf2    The GdkPixBuf image library, gtk+ 1.2 version

IDE started successfully and simple projects can be compiled. However,
to rebuild Lazarus for  GNOME interface (from IDE), it require more
packages to be installed as support... Fortunately, it seem that all
of them are present on Debian's CDs.

BTW, I haven't notice is it valid  Debian build script available to
produce the .deb package of Lazarus, instead of converting  .rpm?