IDE - compile newly - option clean all
lazarus / 12-Debugger

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Nicole · 2023-02-25 09:38

My idea would be, that the above option shall delete the directory
...\ lib \ x86_64-win64
at least of the loaded project.

I suspect, that a *.pp-file (or others) there interacts with a
component-file, which I wanted to update.

The mess took months before I found the reason.

Details here:
https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,62360.msg471974.h
tml#msg471974

"Mess" means.
- about 30 error-messages to click away after I started or closed
Lazarus, which persist and only a restart of the operating system
helped
- not integrating into the IDE of the component
- misleading and false error-messages
- not working elements of the component and strange behavior of its
children at runtime of a project
- component was a mix of updated version and the version before, - 
even after having deleted all of the old files and recompilation with
"clean all". I could see this, because some features or the "new"
version did not work

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wp · 2023-02-25 15:13

Do you want to say that the option "Clean all" in "Tools" > "Configure
Build Lazarus" should also "clean" the compiled units of the current
project? I think this would be very confusing. For cleaning your
project, there is "Run" > "Clean-up and build".

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Nicole · 2023-02-25 18:55

Yes, definitely. I want to say this.

The unwanted interaction of compiled units and "clean-up and build"
kept me busy for days.
In my case these compiled units disturbed the clean-up process.
If I delete them by hand nothing will happen, they have to be rebuilt
and this is what we want, if we ask for a clean up.