Lazarus Save-As Unit Path
lazarus / 6-IDE-CodeTools

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McCorder · 2010-10-02 21:18

Hi,

Not sure if this is a recognized bug or not, so I thought I would ask
first

This is in the latest release just now (Help|About says 0.9.28.2). On
Windows - windows 7 for full info. My project is in the normal My
Documents folder (which is physically
C:\Users\<MyLogInName>\Documents\Dev\Lazarus\).

I created a new application. I then selected Save All from the file
menu. I then created a project folder (in the Lazarus folder above)
and then created a Source sub folder. I saved Unit1 as MainForm in a
Forms sub folder of the Source folder. And then I saved the project
into the Source folder.

When I build I get an error stating that the MainForm file cannot be
found. Of course it can, I can open it in the Project Inspector. It
gets frustrating - I think about bending my monitor so Lazarus can see
it and go 'oh yes, there it is'

But instead I take a look at a similar Delph project I create a note
that the paths in the main .DPR project file use relative paths -
relative to the location of the project file.

So I try it and change

uses
...
MainForm,
...

to

uses
...
MainForm in 'Forms\MainForm.pas',
...

and it builds.

So I think there is a bug in that when saving the project file the
paths of associated files are not saved correctly.