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PascalDragon

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Re: Installation dumbness
« Reply #15 on: July 06, 2026, 09:39:57 pm »
I am trying to install Lazarus into the following directory:
D:\Development Apps\lazarus

Which gives me the following DUMB error:
"Selected folder contains spaces, please select a folder without spaces in it."
NO!

That is where EVERY OTHER development environment I have is installed!  None of them give a toss about spaces in the file path.  What makes you so special?

Well, maybe none of them use tools like windres and gorc (a resource compiler that supports Windows 64) and that is known to have problems with paths that contain spaces. We're in the process of converting to our own fpcres (which for a long time did not support compiling resources from a resource script which is why third party tools were needed), though this will probably only emerge with the next major release (> 3.3.1) and not the next minor release (3.2.x) where fpcres will support resource script compilation, but the compiler won't yet supporting using fpcres in place of windres and gorc.

 

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