[SOLVED] Installing latest Bgrabitmap breaks latest 3.8 Lazarus
lazarus / 39-Graphics

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Awesome Programmer · 2025-03-31 15:19

I recently manage to install Latest Lazarus 3.8 successfully on Latest
Mageia linux operating system. Now, I want to setup Lazarus by
installing all of the tools or components I used with my projects. So
far, it didn't have any issues until I installed the latest package of
Bgrabitmap 11.6.4 Bgracontrols 9.0.1.7 after downloading directly from
Github at the following link;
https://github.com/bgrabitmap/bgrabitmap/releases/tag/v11.6.4

When I open the bgrabitmap and compile, it compiles with no issues but
as soon as it starts to build Lazarus, it completely fails and I
simply can't do anything with Lazarus until I remove or uninstall
bgrabitmap tool. Once I do that, Lazarus is fine and has no issues.
This is the error I get.

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 Messages,
Warnings: 1Warning: other sources path of package "lnetbase 0.6.6"
contains directory "../lib" which is already in the unit search
path.Build IDE: Exit code 2, Errors: 2, Warnings: 1Warning: linker:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXtst: No such file or directorymake[2]: ***
[Makefile:4390: lazarus] Error 1make[1]: *** [Makefile:4829: ide]
Error 2*** [Makefile(3126,0) Error: linker: ide] Error
2lazarus.pp(171,1) Error: Error while linking 
Any hints or clues or ideas will be greatly appreciated. Thanks,

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wp · 2025-03-31 23:26

Try "Tools" > "Configure 'Build Lazarus'" > check "Clean all" and
"Switch after building to automatically" > Click "Build" - this helps
in many compilation issues of the IDE.

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lainz · 2025-04-01 00:15

You need to install libxtst

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Awesome Programmer · 2025-04-01 18:21

Quote from: lainz on April 01, 2025, 02:15:52 amYou need to install
libxtst

That's what I exactly did.

My Linux system is Mageia 9.

In the terminal, I entered the following command to install libxtst.
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
libxtst-develMy system also complained about sqlite3laz and did the
same by entering the following 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
libsqlite3-devel
After that, I was able to successfully install Bgrabitmap and
Bgracontrols including sqlite3laz.

What helped me solve this issue was the following Lazarus post.
https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,33067.msg213552.h
tml#msg213552

Thank you for your replies.