Lazarus Release 3.0

[dbannon]

.....I am trying to follow the instructions at the wiki: https://wiki.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus_on_Linux

...... I think I need to install some gtk libraries for it to work correctly in my debian 12 / regolith3 desktop, but which ones?

The required libraries are listed on that page were on earlier, https://wiki.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus_on_Linux. All the libraries themselves will probably be present but you need the -dev libraries at link time. (Hmm, wild idea, when you say "gtk libraries, you mean gtk2 don't you ?  gtk3 is not ready for prime time yet. Qt5 is good ...)

Or, a variation of Juha's suggestion, add Debian Backports to your Bullseye repo and you will get the current release.

Davo

[99Percent]

I think my debian 12/Regolith3 is not playing nice. I am going instead to try install a QEMU VM with plain Ubuntu 22.04 and just use that for lazarus development. I did that once and it worked ok.

[dbannon]

Can I suggest you use U20.04, it has almost no SNAPs (smaller and faster) and binaries you make there will run on (almost) all OS. If you use U22.04, you get the new glibc and binaries it makes will not run on (eg) U20.04, Buster etc.

I am still running U20.04 on my day to day machine, have to update sooner or later but I keep a Virtual Box VM with an untouched U20.04 as my release build machine anyway.

Davo

[matthius]

Lazarus recompile virtualtrees package on linux.

So i cannot build lazarus with last deb installer.

[Thaddy]

Davo gave you already the answer, to which I might add: also on bookworm Debians like Ubuntu you should add Backports.
That will give you FPC 3.2.2 + Lazarus 3.0. And those are current releases.

[cdbc]

Hi
Upon compiling an old project in laz 3.0 - fpc 3.3.1, I get these errors:

maskedit.pp(563,0) Error: linker: undefined reference to `LAZUTF8_$$_UTF8CODEPOINTSIZEFULL$PCHAR$$LONGINT'
and
laz2_xmlutils.pas(616,0) Error: linker: undefined reference to `LAZUTF8_$$_UTF8CODEPOINTSIZEFULL$PCHAR$$LONGINT'

Funny thing is, I don't use either 'MaskEdit' or any kind of xml...
Has anybody seen this before ...and (fingers crossed) have a solution?!?
It compiles without errors in laz 2.2.6 - fpc 3.2.2
I have required 'LazUtils' package in project inspector.
Regards Benny

[JuhaManninen]

Upon compiling an old project in laz 3.0 - fpc 3.3.1, I get these errors:  ...

You have old versions of LazUtils .ppus somewhere in your system.

[cdbc]

Hi
@JuhaManninen: Thanks mate, That hit the 'Head on the Nail' 
I looked, before I deleted all the files in "project-dir/lib/x86_64-linux/*"
and the only files not updated were lazutf8* etc...
Regards Benny

[czaerlag]

A few hours ago I tried to download Lazarus 3.0 using the "Download Now" button in the upper right corner at lazarus-ide.org
I got the old RC1 .deb package.
Next, I went to the https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/Lazarus%20Linux%20amd64%20DEB/Lazarus%203.0/ page and clicked the link https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/Lazarus%20Linux%20amd64%20DEB/Lazarus%203.0/lazarus-project_3.0.0-0_amd64.deb/download
In that case it was OK -- now I've got the correct version.

P.S. Thank you, boys and girls! You're doing a great job!

[theo]

Are we already at 3.2?
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/Lazarus%20Linux%20x86_64%20RPM/Lazarus%203.2/