Free Pascal Text IDE for Linux, No debugger support available
lazarus / 65-FV-Textmode IDE

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Poul Johansen · 2018-05-20 12:34

Can anybody help a beginner with the "No debugger support available"
problem.
I have installed the gdb debugger. I have installed
fpc-3.0.4.x86_64-linux from SourceForge and I see the same "No
debugger support available problem" in both Debian and Ubunto
installations.
If installing the source files, fpc-3.0.4-1.src.rpm the debugger is
working, but then e.g. the Free Pascal RTL Printer Unit is not found.

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dubst3pp4 · 2018-08-15 08:33

Did you find a solution? Same problem here with fp 1.0.12, fpc 3.0.4
on Ubuntu 18.04...

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marcov · 2018-08-15 08:39

FPC 3.0.4's IDE has the debugger internally, as a static library

If you get that message, the release was prepared without including
the debugger.

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dubst3pp4 · 2018-08-15 10:49

Oh, this would be an answer... Although I installed the official Free
Pascal Debian package from SourceForge, not the one provided by the
distribution...

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segfault · 2018-08-15 19:14

Quote from: marcov on August 15, 2018, 10:39:02 amFPC 3.0.4's IDE has
the debugger internally, as a static library

If you get that message, the release was prepared without including
the debugger.

So which release should linux users download? I've never been able to
get the debugger to work in the text ide, even when downloading the
binary packages (not using deb or rpm).

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Jurassic Pork · 2018-08-16 04:48

hello,
read this thread
and the last message from Moody :
QuoteJust to close this thread:

with svn checkout it works perfectly. 

Just do
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svn checkout http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/trunk fpc
cd fpc
make clean
make all
make install

Have fun with debugging within fp    Hope that fpc-3.1.1 et.al. will
be released soon.
With this, it is ok on Ubuntu 16.04  (see attachment)

Friendly, J.P

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segfault · 2018-08-16 09:46

Thanks JP, finally it works.

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marcov · 2018-08-16 09:57

trunk FPC uses cmdline gdb like Lazarus for platforms that can (read
not dos and other ancient stuff)

This was known before 3.0.4, and it seemed the builders didn't want to
invest effort in keeping the old solution compiling.

You could try the linux .tar 3.0.4 though, those are usually better
than the debs (and maybe RPMs, but I haven't used RPM systems for
years)

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dodona · 2018-11-24 13:53

Quote from: marcov on August 16, 2018, 11:57:34 amYou could try the
linux .tar 3.0.4 though, those are usually better than the debs (and
maybe RPMs, but I haven't used RPM systems for years)

doesn't work either.