[SOLVED] Cannot find unit GLExt in Lazarus 64 bit Windows
lazarus / 70-OpenGL

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johnya · 2012-12-06 17:28

I need to compile my program as 64 bit. Not to complicate things, I
uninstalled old Lazarus, deleteed the Lazarus folder, and installed
Lazarus 1.0.4 64 bit for Windows.

However I always get the error
Code: [Select]unit1.pas(0,0) Fatal: Can not find unit glext used by
Unit1.
I get this error even when I start new project, and add GLExt into
uses section. Before it, the project compiled successfully, with
adding GLExt, it fails. When I Ctrl+Click on GLExt, IDE opens the
unit, so the file is here, but doesn't want to compile. Any
suggestions?

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Leledumbo · 2012-12-07 01:31

QuoteWhen I Ctrl+Click on GLExt, IDE opens the unit, so the file is
here, but doesn't want to compile.Can you find glext.ppu and glext.o
under you fpc's units directory?

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johnya · 2012-12-10 08:09

Quote from: Leledumbo on December 07, 2012, 02:31:23 amCan you find
glext.ppu and glext.o under you fpc's units directory?

No, these files are not there...

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Leledumbo · 2012-12-10 09:15

Then the file is not compiled yet, why don't you just compile the unit
and put the resulting .o and .ppu somewhere the compiler can find?

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johnya · 2012-12-10 09:45

Quote from: Leledumbo on December 10, 2012, 10:15:44 amThen the file
is not compiled yet, why don't you just compile the unit and put the
resulting .o and .ppu somewhere the compiler can find?

You are right. That helped. I still consider myself a Lazarus newbie,
so I thought I should not touch Lazarus folder. I don't know who to
report the missing units to, so that the next Lazarus/FPC release gets
all files.

I run the following command:
Code: [Select]c:\lazarus\fpc\2.6.0>bin\x86_64-win64\fpc.exe
source\packages\opengl\src\glext.pp
and copy glext.o, glext.ppu, and libimpglext.a to units folder. Then
compiling of my project works.

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Leledumbo · 2012-12-10 11:40

QuoteI still consider myself a Lazarus newbie, so I thought I should
not touch Lazarus folderIn fact, it's a good idea to dig into those
directories to know the structure, etc. FPC 2.6.0 has some shipping
bugs where some units aren't shipped in compiled form (e.g. fcl-stl).