[SOLVED] No "make" found on a fresh installation of Lazarus 3.8 on
Mageia
lazarus / 21-General

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Awesome Programmer · 2025-03-28 18:48

I downloaded Lazarus 3.8 from this link.
https://download.lazarus-
ide.org/Lazarus%20Linux%20x86_64%20RPM/Lazarus%203.8/

The instructions said I have to install fpc-laz first, then fpc-src-
laz and then lazarus-project. I did just that on my latest Mageia
linux operating system.  that it installed with no issues, but when I
start Lazarus it complains that there is no make found.

I even searched for make on the system and the search returned the
following:
Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]window.onload = function(){var x1 =
document.getElementById("main_content_section"); if (x1) { var x =
document.getElementsByClassName("geshi");for (var i = 0; i
[jack@localhost ~]$ whereis makemake: /usr/share/man/man1p/make.1p.xz
This is my 4 or the 5 uninstallation and re-installation of Lazarus.
But no matter what, I can't seem to fix this.

Can someone help me please? thank you.

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TRon · 2025-03-28 19:08

make is (should be) part of your linux distribution (build essential).
FPC/Lazarus does not provide it because it depends on your system for
which FPC/Laarus does not know anything about.

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marcov · 2025-03-28 19:08

Make is not part of the FPC/Lazarus dependecies. It is supposed to be
part of a *nix system set up for development.

Check whatever the minimal build setup is for your distribution. Often
it is a package (or package alias)  build-essentials or something
similar

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cdbc · 2025-03-28 19:30

Hi
Hmmm, I'm running PCLinuxOS, which was forked from 'Mandriva', sort of
like 'Mageia' and I've got these 'Build-Essentials' installed on my
machines...
I do not know, which package they belong to in Mageia...?
In the Debian world, it's called 'Build-Essentials' and contain the
gnu-tool-chain etc...
Haven't you got some kind of 'Mageia-forum', where you can ask about
'Make'?!?
Just my 2 cent's worth.
Regards Benny

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Awesome Programmer · 2025-03-31 13:28

Thank you all for your replies.

So, I did have to install build-essentials to get make. To install
build-essentials on Mageia operating system, run the following
terminal command.

Code: Pascal  [Select][+][-]window.onload = function(){var x1 =
document.getElementById("main_content_section"); if (x1) { var x =
document.getElementsByClassName("geshi");for (var i = 0; i sudo urpmi
task-c-devel or sudo urpmi task-c++-devel

Now, my Lazarus doesn't have any issues.
Thanks again.

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Thaddy · 2025-03-31 13:43

It is build-essential without last s.
That may be the cause of the confusion.