Package Paths

[n2ic]

Another NOOB question.

I have inherited this project, so I'm dealing with someone else's work. I'm trying to figure out how Lazarus knows where to find the packages that are required for the project. I have attached a screenshot for the Project Inspector. Note the morserunnerpkg near the bottom. Looking at my directory structure, I have found two morserunnerpkg.lpk files. One of them is in ./morse_pkg. The other is in ./MorseRunner/morse_pkg.

Where do I look in the options to find out which is being used ?

Thanks,
Steve

[marcov]

packages->install/uninstall packages.

Look at the left side and select your package there.

Then scroll the "package info" memo a bit, and it will list filename

[PascalDragon]

Another NOOB question.

I have inherited this project, so I'm dealing with someone else's work. I'm trying to figure out how Lazarus knows where to find the packages that are required for the project. I have attached a screenshot for the Project Inspector. Note the morserunnerpkg near the bottom. Looking at my directory structure, I have found two morserunnerpkg.lpk files. One of them is in ./morse_pkg. The other is in ./MorseRunner/morse_pkg.

Where do I look in the options to find out which is being used ?

Lazarus always picks the last package you opened, so essentially if you have opened both variants of the morse_pkg package you can't find out which package the project really used.

[lucamar]

I'm trying to figure out how Lazarus knows where to find the packages that are required for the project.

Beside what Marco and PascalDragon said, the low-level answer is that the IDE keeps a record of "known" packages in its configuration directory, in the file packagefiles.xml, section "UserPkgLinks".

There is also a section in the project info file ("project.lpi") called "RequiredPackages" where one might find an override, if set; for example:

Code: XML  [Select][+][-]

1.     <RequiredPackages Count="3">
2.       <Item1>
3.         <PackageName Value="LazWiki"/>
4.         <DefaultFilename Value="lazwiki/lazwiki.lpk" Prefer="True"/>
5.       </Item1>
6.       <Item2>
7.         <PackageName Value="CodeTools"/>
8.       </Item2>
9.       <Item3>
10.         <PackageName Value="LazUtils"/>
11.       </Item3>
12.     </RequiredPackages>

(though in this case the exact same package is also stored in packagefiles.xml)