Can't build from svn sources...
lazarus / 1-Linux

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ghepardo · 2009-01-22 21:39

Hi, forgive me for the stupid question, but for the first time I'm
having troubles in building Lazarus. I used to do it on both Windows
and openSUSE, but it seems that I can't do it on Ubuntu 8.10.
I started by installing the Free Pascal Compiler 2.2.0 from the
repositories, with the sources packages too, of course (that's exactly
what I do with the other OSes).
I then downloaded the SVN tree (from the sourceforge server), ready to
make the IDE, and that's the output:

make -C lcl all
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/me/lazarus/lcl'
/bin/rm -f units/i386-linux/alllclunits.ppu
/usr/bin/ppc386 -gl -Fu. -Funonwin32 -Fuforms -Fuwidgetset
-Fu/usr/lib/fpc/2.2.0/units/i386-linux/rtl -Fiinclude -FE.
-FUunits/i386-linux -di386 alllclunits.pp
Free Pascal Compiler version 2.2.0 [2008/09/20] for i386
Copyright (c) 1993-2007 by Florian Klaempfl
Target OS: Linux for i386
Compiling alllclunits.pp
Compiling graphutil.pp
Compiling graphics.pp
Compiling intfgraphics.pas
Compiling lclintf.pas
Compiling interfacebase.pp
Compiling themes.pas
Compiling comctrls.pp
Compiling lresources.pp
lresources.pp(5123,22) Error: Identifier not found "toWString"
lresources.pp(5315) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module,
stopping
Fatal: Compilation aborted
make[1]: *** [alllclunits.ppu] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/me/lazarus/lcl'
make: *** [lcl] Error 2

I've already checked the include and library paths, and everything
seems fine to me... So it's getting quite frustrating.
Can anyone help?

Thanks a lot

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Vincent Snijders · 2009-01-22 21:51

To compile the svn version, you need the latest fpc release: fpc 2.2.2

Note that on ubuntu 8.10 there are additional problems, it uses a
relatively new gtk2 version, which doesn't go well with fpc 2.2.2, use
fpc 2.2.3 or higher. Alternatively look at this post.