Cannot install packages

[Criss]

Every time I install a pages it says:

"Compile IDE (without linking)" completed
c:\lazarus\link.res: file not recognized: File format not recognized
C:\lazarus\lazarus.pp(98,1) Error: Error while linking
make.exe[1]: [lazarus.exe] Error 1


What should I do to make it work?

[criss]

sorry i meant "install a package" not "install a pages"

[matthijs]

What package are you trying to install?
What is the file "link.res"? In my lazarus root directory there is no such file. You have to look for a solution in that direction. See if you can find where link.res is included and try to remove that.

[Vincent Snijders]

Can you post the link.res? Maybe you used some uncomon chars in your paths, that is throwing the linker off.

[Buba]

When I try to install a package it says:

"Compile IDE (without linking)" completed
D:\Teste\lazarus\pp\bin\i386-win32\ld.exe:D:\Teste\lazarus\link.res: file format not recognized; treating as linker script
D:\Teste\lazarus\pp\bin\i386-win32\ld.exe:D:\Teste\lazarus\link.res:16: syntax error
D:\Teste\lazarus\ide\lazarus.pp(113,1) Error: Error while linking
make.exe[2]: *** [lazarus.exe] Error 1

Why?
What should I do to make it work?

[amiso]

Can you post the link.res? Maybe you used some uncomon chars in your paths, that is throwing the linker off.

Hi,
  I have the same (similar) bug with a "link.res" that came out from nowhere. As a coincidence my folder name when the problem started had two bad characters "(" and ")"in the name : "stupidfoldername(april2007)"

This may be related !!!!

Now, how do I fix this: I changed the folder name but my compiler is still bugged!

[amiso]

Can you post the link.res? Maybe you used some uncomon chars in your paths, that is throwing the linker off.

Hi,
  I have the same (similar) bug with a "link.res" that came out from nowhere. As a coincidence my folder name when the problem started had two bad characters "(" and ")"in the name : "stupidfoldername(april2007)"

This may be related !!!!

Now, how do I fix this: I changed the folder name but my compiler is still bugged!

Hi,

I also had the character "#" in my folder name: removing it solved the problem !!!!  --> no "(" , ")", "-" or "#" are allowed !!!