Issue Building IDE
lazarus / 9-Editor

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stuartbloom · 2015-09-18 11:25

OK, firstly, please accept my apologies, I have search Google to a
page higher than I normally go; 20...

I have seen some posts here but doing what they suggest is not
helping. so I am hoping some genius here will be gentle with me and
point me in the right direction.

I am trying to install a component package; tvplanit.  it compiles ok,
but when I compile the IDE, which I seem to have to, I get the
following error in lazarus.pp (141, 1) Error: Can't call the resource
compiler "/usr/bin/fpcres", switching to external mode.

Now, I do have fpcres in that folder, and my other sttings are:
Lazarus directory:
/usr/share/lazarus/1.2.6/

Compiler path:
usr/bin/fpc

FPC source directory:
/usr/share/fpcsrc/$(FPCVER)

Make path:
make

Directory for building test projects:
~/tmp/

I can call fpcres from the terminal and it states:
fpcres - resource file converter, version 2.0 [2014/04/20], FPC 2.6.4
Host platform: Linux - i386.

Can anyone help me?? please??

Thanks in advance

Stuart

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stuartbloom · 2015-10-01 12:44

OK, I have built a new Ubuntu VM, have installed the latest fpc, fpc-
src and lazarus.  Now when I rebuild the IDE I get a load of Panic
statements and an exit code of 2; attached is end of the Messages
window.

Can anyone please help??

Thanks in advance

Stuart

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Cyrax · 2015-10-01 13:21

Are you sure that your VM/guest OS is 32-bit? I can see that IDE is
trying to call 64-bit version of the FPC compiler.

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stuartbloom · 2015-10-01 13:23

Cyrax.  no its not, its 64bit.  Can I only use a 32bit OS??  Thanks if
thats the case, ubuntu 32bit downloading as we speak

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Cyrax · 2015-10-01 13:25

No need to install 32-bit OS for that. Just get 64-bit version of FPC
compiler from Ubuntu repository.

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stuartbloom · 2015-10-01 13:27

so, "apt-get install fp-compiler"??

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Cyrax · 2015-10-01 13:30

No. "apt-get install fpc" is correct form.

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stuartbloom · 2015-10-01 13:44

Thanks Cyrax, I'll give that a try

Stuart