[SOLVED] Building Lazarus 2.2.0 with FreePascal 3.2.2 fails under OpenBSD

[dbannon]

After your one successful build of FPC, did you test it on some thing simple before tackling Lazarus ?

Never try to script something you cannot do by hand.  Small steps, test if possible after each step.

You have a message about not being able to build FPC322 with FPC322, maybe that is the case ? Worth looking into.

Davo

[Superdisk]

I'm currently running into the same exact issue as TCH. I think it must be some sort of misconfiguration in `fpc.cfg` or something-- I can see that `db.ppu` is installed, so there shouldn't be a problem loading it.

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$ pkg_info -L fpc | grep db.ppu
/usr/local/lib/fpc/3.2.2/units/x86_64-openbsd/fcl-db/db.ppu
/usr/local/lib/fpc/3.2.2/units/x86_64-openbsd/fcl-db/sqldb.ppu
/usr/local/lib/fpc/3.2.2/units/x86_64-openbsd/fcl-net/netdb.ppu
/usr/local/lib/fpc/3.2.2/units/x86_64-openbsd/fpindexer/fbindexdb.ppu
/usr/local/lib/fpc/3.2.2/units/x86_64-openbsd/fpindexer/memindexdb.ppu
/usr/local/lib/fpc/3.2.2/units/x86_64-openbsd/fpindexer/pgindexdb.ppu
/usr/local/lib/fpc/3.2.2/units/x86_64-openbsd/fpindexer/sqldbindexdb.ppu
/usr/local/lib/fpc/3.2.2/units/x86_64-openbsd/fpindexer/sqliteindexdb.ppu
/usr/local/lib/fpc/3.2.2/units/x86_64-openbsd/sqlite/sqlite3db.ppu
/usr/local/lib/fpc/3.2.2/units/x86_64-openbsd/sqlite/sqlitedb.ppu

But when I try to compile a simple program, I get this error:

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$ more asdf.pas
program asdf;
uses db;
begin
        writeln('yeah');
end.

$ fpc asdf.pas
Free Pascal Compiler version 3.2.2 [2021/09/27] for x86_64
Copyright (c) 1993-2021 by Florian Klaempfl and others
Target OS: OpenBSD for x86-64
Compiling asdf.pas
asdf.pas(2,6) Fatal: Can't find unit db used by asdf
Fatal: Compilation aborted
Error: /usr/local/bin/ppcx64 returned an error exitcode


[Superdisk]

I found the issue. I had a stray fpc.cfg laying around in my home dir, called `~/.fpc.cfg` from some other install, and this was causing problems for some reason.

You don't need to build fpc from source yourself, you can use the one from the package manager.

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1. $ doas pkg_add fpc
2. $ doas cp /usr/local/share/examples/fpc-3.2.2/fpc.cfg.sample /etc/fpc.cfg
3. $ rm ~/.fpc.cfg

Then you can build lazarus and it'll work (at least it did for me!)

[dbannon]

I found the issue. I had a stray fpc.cfg laying around in my home dir, called `~/.fpc.cfg` from some other install, and this was causing problems for some reason.

From memory, FPC looks for a config file first in your working dir, then your home dir then in /etc.

Davo

[nsunny]

It is also possible to build Lazarus 2.2.0 through ports and the best thing is, it's not that hard this way at all.

1. Install the ports on /usr/ports
2. Then:

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# git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ibara/openbsd-ports-wip /tmp/obsd-wip
# cp -r /tmp/obsd-wip/devel/lazarus /usr/ports/devel
# cd /usr/ports/devel/lazarus
# pkg_add fpc gmake libiconv gtk+2
# pkg_delete lazarus
# make install

It should install it as a package and removing it is very easy with a "pkg_delete lazarus" if needed.

Details here: https://lazplanet.gitlab.io/2022/03/install-lazarus-openbsd.html

[TCH]

@dbannon:
This script has worked for years with earlier FPC/Lazarus versions.

@Superdisk:
I had no stray fpc.cfg anywhere and even when i removed everything and started it from scratch, building Lazarus has failed with the message in the OP.

@Superdisk, @nsunny:
Thank you very much, with your examples, i was able to install Lazarus from the ports.

Update: It appears, that the bug reported in this thread still persists.