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Programming => Operating Systems => macOS / Mac OS X => Topic started by: knutendre on October 01, 2011, 05:15:26 pm

Title: A beginners problem.
Post by: knutendre on October 01, 2011, 05:15:26 pm

I have just installed Lazarus on a MacBook Air (2010), running Lion. I have according to instructions loaded three dmgs and installed them all. I can start Lazarus without any error messages, and I see a form and I can add a Tbutton to my form. Everything seems well. Then when I want to add some code to my Tbutton (by clicking it) I stops and I get the following error message "Error in TDefaultComponentEditor ...", see attachment 1. Furter in a message box it says
"---------------------------------------------
Developer/lazarus/lcl/lclclasses.pp(32,10) Error: unit not found: Classes
"

Can anybody out there help a complete beginner? I would much appreciate to come over these start-problems so I can do some coding.

Best regards
Knut.E

Title: Re: A beginners problem.
Post by: CaptBill on October 01, 2011, 05:38:15 pm

Hi Knutendre,
You need to set your paths in menu|environment|options. Go to the "paths" section and supply the directory where fpc.exe is located (usually /fpc/bin i think). Also check for the path setting to the lazarus directory.

First try simply saving your project. This may be the actual problem.

Enjoy

Title: Re: A beginners problem.
Post by: jwdietrich on October 01, 2011, 05:44:02 pm

Which version of Lazarus / Free Pascal do you use?

Title: Re: A beginners problem.
Post by: kamischi on October 01, 2011, 06:26:06 pm

Quote from: CaptBill on October 01, 2011, 05:38:15 pm

Go to the "paths" section and supply the directory where fpc.exe is located (usually /fpc/bin i think).

On Mac OS X, the default is /usr/local/bin/fpc

Mischi

Title: Re: A beginners problem.
Post by: jwdietrich on October 01, 2011, 08:17:30 pm

Did you also load FPC and FPCsrc? On Mac OS X, it is a usual mistake to only load Lazarus and not the corresponding FPC and FPCsrc archives.

Correct versions are:

For Lazarus 0.9.30.2RC1: fpcsrc 2.4.4 and fpc 2.4.4
For Lazarus 0.9.30: fpcsrc 2.4.2 and fpc 2.4.2

The links are provided directly in the corresponding Lazarus downloads folder at SourceForge.

And ensure to correctly set the paths as noted above.

Title: Re: A beginners problem.
Post by: MonkeyChap on October 28, 2011, 10:51:48 pm

Hello,

I'm having exactly the same problem. There is another issue (maybe this is the cause) in that FPC is not fully installing on Lion. There is no /usr/local/share/fpcsrc folder, and I get a warning about this when Lazarus starts up.

As someone is bound to ask; yes, I have run the fpc 2.4.4 installer and the fpc-xcode 2.4.4. installer (in that order) then installed Lazarus (0.9.3rc2).

Ian

Title: Re: A beginners problem.
Post by: Bart on October 29, 2011, 05:04:16 pm

IIRC the fpc installer installs only the binaries?
You must install/have the fpc sources, or the codetools from Lazarus won't work.
(You can download the sources, unpack, and point Lazarus to them. That should be enough.)

Bart

Title: Re: A beginners problem.
Post by: felipemdc on October 29, 2011, 05:58:49 pm

You can download a DMG with the Free Pascal source code from the SourceForge of Lazarus:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/Lazarus%20Mac%20OS%20X%20i386/Lazarus%200.9.30/

Title: Re: A beginners problem.
Post by: MonkeyChap on November 01, 2011, 09:06:38 pm

Hi Kuntendre,

Many thanks for that. When combined with this advice:

http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?topic=10834.0

...it solves the problem.

Ian