I am running Linux Mint 15 in Virtualbox on Windows 8. I read quite a few items in the forum before starting, and downloaded 1.0.12 32 bit for Linux because the Mint packaged version is pre 1.0.
The three packages fpc, fpcsrc and laz were all placed in a folder /home/mike/programs and installed with the GDebi package installer.
I then had wall-to-wall permissions problems, which were largely fixed by following the advice at
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_directory_permissions_on_Linux_and_Unix.
This was not quite sufficient and I had to give the lazarus group permission to read and write to my projects folder ~/mike/programs/laz_projects. To do this graphically, I had to install gnome-system-tools.
As I met access problems, I extended permissions for the lazarus group to have read/write access to the required folder and files.
I can now change and save both project and general IDE options. However, after rebuilding the IDE and restarting lazarus, I get the question below:
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Which Lazarus should be started?
The system default executable
/usr/share/lazarus/1.0.12/lazarus
(date: 15-9-13 23:03:27)
Or your custom executable
/home/mike/.lazarus/bin/lazarus
(date: 15-9-13 19:59:01)
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I have not noticed this in Windows. Should there be several executables in different places, if so, where should they reside? The Project and IDE options are the same for both,as below.
Project paths
include files: $(ProjOutDir)
unit output dir: lib/$(TargetCPU)-$(TargetOS)
target filename: WindSirf
IDE Options
Laz dir: /usr/share/lazarus/1.0.12/
compiler path: /usr/bin/fpc
FPC source dir: /usr/share/fpcsrc/$(FPCVER)/
Make path: make
Dir for building test projects: /usr/share/lazarus/1.0.12/projects/tmp/
When I try to compile using either I get the error message "fcllaz.pas(0,0) Fatal: Can not find unit system used by fcllaz."
Any advice would be appreciated.
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