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Using the Lazarus IDE => General => Topic started by: trev on August 02, 2021, 04:12:52 am

Title: Error: (9021) Resource compiler "fpcres" not found
Post by: trev on August 02, 2021, 04:12:52 am
After compiling a new trunk version of Lazarus, I received this error which was a little puzzling because fpcres was located in /usr/local/bin.

The -va log shows:

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  1. [7.840] Searching file project1.res... found
  2. [7.840] Searching file /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/fpcres... not found
  3. [7.840] Searching file /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/FPCRES... not found
  4. [7.840] Searching file /usr/local/lib/fpc/3.3.1/fpcres... not found
  5. [7.840] Searching file /usr/local/lib/fpc/3.3.1/FPCRES... not found
  6. [7.840] Searching file /usr/bin/fpcres... not found
  7. [7.840] Searching file /usr/bin/FPCRES... not found
  8. [7.840] Searching file /bin/fpcres... not found
  9. [7.840] Searching file /bin/FPCRES... not found
  10. [7.840] Searching file /usr/sbin/fpcres... not found
  11. [7.840] Searching file /usr/sbin/FPCRES... not found
  12. [7.840] Searching file /sbin/fpcres... not found
  13. [7.840] Searching file /sbin/FPCRES... not found
  14. [7.840] Error: (9021) Resource compiler "fpcres" not found, switching to external mode

The question is why it didn't look in /usr/local/bin which is in my path:

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  1. $ echo $PATH
  2. /Users/trev/bin:/Users/trev/svn/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Library/Apple/usr/bin

The IDE environment variables list shows an abbreviated path:

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  1. Environment variables:
  2. ...
  3. PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
  4. ...

One solution was to add -FD/usr/local/bin to my existing .fpc.cfg file.

I'm still puzzled why it suddenly became necessary though and why the IDE path is not the same as my $PATH.
Title: Re: Error: (9021) Resource compiler "fpcres" not found
Post by: dbannon on August 02, 2021, 07:40:14 am
> The question is why it didn't look in /usr/local/bin which is in my path:

Maybe (and you know how much know about MacOS !) your path is set in your bash rc file and that applies when you are running a terminal but you are starting Lazarus directly, not via bash ?

Davo
Title: Re: Error: (9021) Resource compiler "fpcres" not found
Post by: trev on August 02, 2021, 01:55:11 pm
Quote from: dbannon on August 02, 2021, 07:40:14 am
Maybe (and you know how much know about macOS !) your path is set in your bash rc file and that applies when you are running a terminal but you are starting Lazarus directly, not via bash ?

In my case, my shell is tcsh, and the path is set in .cshrc.

However, that's not the end of it, macOS has global (ie all users inherit) paths specified in:

* /etc/paths which contains, among others, /usr/local/bin
* /etc/paths.d (directory) with individual files containing an app-specific path(s)

and of course, individual user paths are set in the login shell dot resource files (like .cshrc).

It used to work and now it doesn't without some finagling...
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