@zeljko
Thanks. That worked. I can use qt now. But, for some reason now the "View Forms" and "View Units" speedbuttons on the ide don't work. The press, and there is brief hd activity, but then nothing further. If I minimize Lazarus, then bring it back up I can see the frame of the dialog that is supposed to show the selections, but nothing else. I can close the frame using the X close button and Lazarus comes back. I guess it's not a huge problem since I can still do File-Open to open the units and forms (how do you switch from source to form view when lfm files are opened?) but it is something I'd like to fix if possible.
hmmm .. and I just found out that "File-New" does the same thing as the View Forms and View Units. Shows the empty dialog frame after minimizing and restoring Lazarus. Nothing further. So, now that makes it unusable.