Internal error 200311075

[Elphi]

Hello,

I got an 'Internal error 200311075'. Any particular meaning?

[Marc]

Some fpc error, itr sometimes happens. You can try to compile again.

[eric]

It happens to me from time to time. I usually restart Lazarus before continuing, and it's always fine after that.

Eric

[Zorba]

You don't even have to restart it on Linux.
Just hit compile again and it works.

[Elphi]

Thanks. Today picked up the project again, compiled and this internal error disappeared indeed. I'm on Windows XPP.
BUT: now the compiler halts with: 'Can't find unit BlckSock', a Synapse unit. The path to the Synapse source is included in 'Other unit files'paths. Should I  reinstall Lazarus again.

[Zorba]

is this the path included in your 'Other unit files' path:
synapse/source/lib/

if it is then I don't know what could be the problem.

[Elphi]

Solved, the path to the file contained a space. A warning from Lazarus telling me the spaces are not allowed would be nice!

[felipemdc]

Spaces are not allowed by GNU Tools on Windows. If you use Lazarus without  GNU Tools, or outside windows, you can use spaces.

So it's hard to put such warning, as it  is false on many cases.

[Elphi]

What are GNU Tools?

[felipemdc]

What I really meant  is GNU Binutils, which is a combination of:

GNU Assembler, GNU Linker, GNU Resource Compiler, GNU Objdump, etc.

In short, all tools necessary to transform assembler into executables of a given platform.

[Elphi]

How can check if GNU Binutils is on my machine?

Regarding the internal error: I noticed that a "build" throws this error wheras a "build all" doesn't .

[felipemdc]

> How can check if GNU Binutils is on my machine?

They are automatically installed when you install Lazarus on Windows. They are located at:

lazarus/fpc/2.0.4/bin/i386-win32/

> Regarding the internal error: I noticed that a "build" throws this error wheras a "build all" doesn't .

Internal error doesn't mean anything about your code. It  is always a problem on the compiler.

A build all is different from a simple build, and is much cleaner. The algoritm the compiler uses to see if it should recompile a given source file is not perfect, so it's possible the compiler things a source file doesn't need to be recompiled, while it actually does.

[Elphi]

Well that's a clear probable cause for the "internal error", isn't it?
However you might expect that a "build" right after a successful "build all" doesn't throw this error anymore.

[Elphi]

Moreover, just trying to run a this project from the IDE (after a successful "build al") results in this "internal error"

[felipemdc]

Good ... if  it's reproducable you can make a bug report.

However, there is a huge amount of changes on the latest subversion free pascal, so likely it's already solved.