Installing weblaz on RasPi
lazarus / 38-Networking and Web Programming

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BLL · 2017-12-17 16:51

Hi
I am using fpc 3.0.0 and lazarus 1.7 on my RasPi model 3.

I want to install the weblaz package but it won't. I am told that this
is because of a lack of Interbase support.
I have searched the net but that hasn't helped at all. I have never
done anything with web servers before, so I am a rank beginner!

Is it possible to install weblaz on my RasPi or not?
If it is, HOW please?
I am hoping to incorporate a very small, simple web server into my
program so I can get data from it over the web.

Any help much appreciated.

Brian

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eric · 2017-12-17 18:29

You don't need weblaz. FPC already includes all you need for a simple
webserver. See
https://www.freepascal.org/~michael/articles/webserver1/webserver1.pdf

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BLL · 2017-12-17 18:55

Hi Eric

I tried this tutorial and got rafts of errors!
God, am I frustrated!

Brian

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BLL · 2017-12-17 19:04

Early in the tutorial, it says one needs to install LazwebExtra
package. When I try to do this I get the error message:
ibconnection.pp Cannot find ibase60dyn used by IBConnection!!!!

So I can't proceed with the tutorial!!!

Brian

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molly · 2017-12-17 19:04

Although user eric is correct, user eric seem to have missed the point
that weblaz is using those exact classes to provide a more complicated
example using a database back-end.

I had a quick glance and I have no idea where the missing library is
coming from. You should be able to select to use another database
engine and i was unable to detect static linking (but i might have
overlooked something there). Because i have no idea where my pi is
hiding i'm unable to try myself atm (why do they make these things so
small that they are able to hide anywhere    ).

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BLL · 2017-12-19 19:10

Still trying without success to install weblaz.

The error message I was getting involved sqlite, so I have carefully
edited weblaz.lpk to remove any references to sql as I don't need it.

That has allowed the installation to go further but now I am getting
an error:

fpideexteditorinsertfilenameunit.pas(37,23) Fatal: Cannot find
LazFileUtils used by fpIDEExtEditorInsertFileNameUnit.

Check if package LazUtils is in the dependencies of package weblaz.

LazUtils is installed and LazFileUtils is found in LazUtils.lpk.

How do I check if it is the dependencies as it suggests?

Thanks

Brian