Install problems

[wordweb]

I've tried installing both the latest-build dmg set and using svn as described on the wiki (in latest Leopard).

The nearest I can get to something working is the object inspector, source editor and top panels showing. However apart from the source editor they are not selectable and all the windows - including the source editor - are behind all other windows. The menu is also unchanged - I see only the X11 menu items. Also the fonts in the source editor seem to be wrong - bits of text missing, and if you select text the font size changes.

Any suggestions?

Many thanks.

[Phil]

I've tried installing both the latest-build dmg set and using svn as described on the wiki (in latest Leopard).

The nearest I can get to something working is the object inspector, source editor and top panels showing. However apart from the source editor they are not selectable and all the windows - including the source editor - are behind all other windows. The menu is also unchanged - I see only the X11 menu items. Also the fonts in the source editor seem to be wrong - bits of text missing, and if you select text the font size changes.

Any suggestions?

Many thanks.

The 0.9.25 snapshots (.dmg) for OS X are now Carbon-native and no longer require X11 or GTK libraries.

Install the Lazarus and FPC .dmg's (3), then start Lazarus in one of these two ways:

(1) cd /usr/local/share/lazarus
     open lazarus.app

(2) Double-click the lazarus app bundle in Finder. You can also drag and drop it on the Dock to start it from there.

Thanks.

-Phil

[wordweb]

Many thanks - using dmg and command line

cd /usr/local/share/lazarus
open lazarus.app

does show the all the windows correctly (though I had to change the font to Courier New to make the source window display correctly - the default has some font size display issue).

[wordweb]

..however I can't now get Lazarus to build itself (i.e. to install custom components). If I let it re-start as the default, it starts in the non-active non-window state I had before. If I don't let it restart then nothing seems to change - i.e. it appears to be building a different version to the one that is running correctly from the .app?

[Help About says 2008-07-18, though I downloaded the latest dmg today]

[Phil]

..however I can't now get Lazarus to build itself (i.e. to install custom components). If I let it re-start as the default, it starts in the non-active non-window state I had before. If I don't let it restart then nothing seems to change - i.e. it appears to be building a different version to the one that is running correctly from the .app?

[Help About says 2008-07-18, though I downloaded the latest dmg today]

Just shut down Lazarus and start as before. I don't think the re-start works reliably like it does on Windows.

To rebuild, clicking Install in the Package dialog after compiling a custom component package should work. If it doesn't, use Tools | Configure and make sure Carbon is selected as the widgetset. To build just the IDE, you can set everything else to None if you're just trying to include a new package in the IDE.

Thanks.

-Phil

[wordweb]

Neither route worked directly, but I noticed that it seemed to be putting files a directory ~/.lazarus. So I did a

sudo cp ~/.larazus/lazarus /usr/local/share/lazarus

to replace the current file - and that worked.

Many thanks - now up an running,

[Vincent Snijders]

Use startlazarus instead of lazarus to start lazarus. Startlazarus checks if there is a newer version in ~/.lazarus/lazarus and starts that. (That is how it works in linux).