How to load CSVDataset to DBGrid? CSV overwritten after first run.

[Vodnik]

No, the basic CSVDataset code belongs to FPC, not to Lazarus. Therefore, updating Lazarus is usless. Unfortunately, FPC 3.2 has not yet been released. Unless you want to build FPC from code you can download a precompiled snapshot from http://ftp.icm.edu.pl/packages/fpc/snapshot/.

Well, I downloaded the snapshot and tried to replace FPC 3.0.4 with FPC 3.2.0. This was the pain. I didn't find clear description how this should be done, so tried step by step correcting every error reported by Lazarus, until completely destroyed it. One who decide to walk this way should know in details how IDE works, that's not for me 

[wp]

This is how I got it running on Windows (I don't know your OS):

• Download the 32-bit binaries from http://ftp.icm.edu.pl/packages/fpc/snapshot/v32/i386-win32/fpc-3.2.0-beta.i386-win32.zip (or for 64 bit use the x86_64_win64 folder - in the following description, I'll assume 32 bit however)
• Unzip the file to something like d:\fpc320
• Download the fpc sources from http://ftp.icm.edu.pl/packages/fpc/snapshot/v32/source/fpc.zip
• Unzip the folders "packages" and "rtl" to d:\fpc320 (the other folders are not needed). Note the folder structure must be retained, i.e. "packages" and "rtl" must be folders within d:\fpc320.
• Copy the following code to a batch file and execute it in order to create the fpc.cfg file (adjust the DEST_DIR if you extracted to a different folder)

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1. set DEST_DIR=d:\fpc320
2. path %DEST_DIR%\bin\i386-win32\
3. fpcmkcfg -d basepath=%DEST_DIR% -o %DEST_DIR%\bin\i386-win32\fpc.cfg

• Open the Lazarus version for which you want to switch fpc to v3.2. But note that the current release 2.0.6 does not compile with fpc 3.2, you must use Lazarus fixes or trunk.
• Go to "Tools" > "Options" > "Files.
• Make the "compiler executable" point to the new location of fpc. In my case it is d:\fpc320\bin\i386-win32\fpc.exe
• Make the "FPC Source directory" point to the folder which contains the "Packages" and "rtl" directories, in my case: d:\fpc320
• Rebuild the IDE by going to "Tools" > "Configure Build Lazarus" ; in the "Clean-up" box check "Clean all" and "Switch after building to automatically". Click "Build"
• After a while Lazarus restarts and will use fpc 3.2 now.

Of course, you can also install a new version with fpcupdeluxe which is less work.

[Vodnik]

Thanks a lot, wp!
I nearly came to the same.
Lazarus also asks path to make.exe file, which doesn't come with snapshot.
I tried to use a one from FPC3.0.4, but this doesn't work:
Panic: make: Entering directory `C:/lazarus'
Panic: make: Leaving directory `C:/lazarus'
Panic: Makefile:29: *** You need the GNU utils package to use this Makefile.  Stop.