How can I open lazarus project in ide from command line?

[dvhx]

I want to open existing lazarus project from the command line. When I pass project file, it simply opens the most recent project, not the project I pass as argument. I tried:

startlazarus test.lpr
startlazarus test.lpi
lazarus-ide test.lpr
lazarus-ide test.lpi

None of it works, I always get project that was last opened in ide, not this one. I'm using Lazarus 2.2.0 on Ubuntu 22.04

[rvk]

Don't use startlazarus in that case (it doesn't pass the parameter).

Use lazarus (the lazarus executable).

(I'm not sure what lazarus-ide is for you)

[dvhx]

Ok, I found it. There is trickery via /etc/alternatives where the argument is lost, but when I call this directly it works:

/usr/lib/lazarus/2.2.0/lazarus test.lpr

[Martin_fr]

Ok, I found it. There is trickery via /etc/alternatives where the argument is lost, but when I call this directly it works:

/usr/lib/lazarus/2.2.0/lazarus test.lpr

When you install packages, the ide (the lazarus exe) is rebuild. And the new lazarus will then be somewhere in ~/.lazarus/*/

[JuhaManninen]

Parameter passing to StartLazarus works again in "main" development branch. Mattias fixed it. See :
 https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/lazarus/lazarus/-/issues/40044