I'm trying a bare metal fpcup install on Linux ARMHF (but this applies to other platforms as well).
Things are starting to look good - I get FPC trunk and Lazarus trunk to compile. However, when recompiling Lazarus with selected packages I get the fpcres resource compiler error not found - which is because the "plain FPC bin dir", the dir above the architecture-dependent one where the fpc executable is, and where fpcres resides in, is not in the PATH. Questions: 1. On this and similar systems - where PATH is not set to a certain FPC directory - e.g. perhaps when using the new secondary config option in the Lazarus win installer or on pen drives etc - what to do? - Write a batch/shell script that adds the "plain FPC bin dir" to the path before starting Lazarus? - Add yet another option to Lazarus? - Change Lazarus to search in the directory above the compiler for fpcres and other utilities? ... or is there something obvious that I've missed after messing with paths and builds for so long? 2. Non-related: Lazarus options has "Compiler path (e.g. fpc)". Wouldn'it it be *much* better to call this "Compiler (e.g. fpc.exe) location"? IMO, path normally implies a path/directory, while the setting wants an actual directory+filename aka full path. I know fpc.exe is a windowsism, but probably recognizable for other OS users as the indicator for the compiler executable. Alternative "Compiler executable location" perhaps? I realize this would mean changing docs etc and TBH I know what the option does so no problem if my rant is not followed up on ;) Thanks, Reinier -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
