Lazarus compiles but stopped running

k9dog

When I originally installed Gentoo. One of the packages I installed was Lazarus (Free Pascal Compiler that simulates Delphi behavior). It used to be Intel and PPC, but I think they are slacking on PPC now (pity). I needed it for work at the time. I recently tried to fire up Lazarus, but it fails trying to start the GUI. Initially Lazarus tells me it is using some defaults (no config files). It shows splash and a window for setting some default paths (Lazarus, Compiler, FPC sources, Make and Debugger). According to the dialog these checks out OK. Pressing the Start IDE ends the process with the following tail to the text output in the terminal (user). I tried as root also.

MageSlayer · Posted: Fri Aug 04, 2017 11:01 am Post subject:

Try removing/renaming ~/.lazarus directory and restarting.
If it does not help then update it, redo and report bug at bugs.freepascal.org

k9dog · Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 3:37 am Post subject:

MageSlayer · Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2017 8:14 am Post subject:

I am pretty sure that fpc/Lazarus installations do not benefit from _any_ world updates (except obvious gtk+, binutils, gdb).
FPC devs run it as autonomously as possible (even glibc is not necessary).
YMMV, though.

k9dog · Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2017 10:48 pm Post subject:

You are probably right about world updates, don't remember why I needed to do a world emerge, but a system should be able to upgrade once in a while.
Anyway, I updated world and got rid of errors. I unmerged lazarus and fpc, deleted ~/.lazarus (all users) also looked for config files in etc. reemerged lazarus. Also tried reemerging after deleting /var/tmp/dev-lang/lazarus* (think that was the path). I am still seeing an error like before. Any flags or combination of flags known to be incompatible with lazarus? I'm using xfce4 as desktop.

k9dog · Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 1:25 am Post subject:

Well it's a long time since I posted this. Issue is still there. I know the user source directory is missing from my users directory. I am using xfce4 which might be causing the problem somehow or maybe the system is just too custom. When Lazarus starts it shows a window that just show all tools are there. The errors still doesn't seem to tell me what is actually wrong, just saying something about exception raised by TMainIDE access violation without even showing the Lazarus IDE. Maybe I should look over some requirements of Lazarus. I think the main window might just raise something if it doesn't understand what it sees Ran it when it first was installed, I rhink it might have been on KDE4. Anyway thanks to the people that tried helping.

wjb · Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 12:20 am Post subject:

It's worth supplying all of the console log, because lazarus is quite chatty about what it's doing and it's only about 100 actual lines. Delete ~/.lazarus and run lazarus from the command line as a normal user

R0b0t1 · Apprentice Joined: 05 Jun 2008 Posts: 264

Can you build Lazarus in your $HOME somewhere and launch it? I had to do something similar around the time of Lazarus 1.4. I am not entirely sure why, I could never get it working in Portage even after looking at the ebuild. It seems like sometimes the packaging that ebuild authors do is not comprehensive (through no fault of their own, usually) and causes subtle breakage.

The Lazarus and FPC developers are unusually active as of late, so it is likely they will respond to your report. You should also ask about PPC support, but it may be one person who was helping who left. It might also not be.

k9dog · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2018 8:36 pm Post subject:

k9dog · Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2018 7:11 pm Post subject:

Again taken some for other projects.

glib above 2.39 and gtk2 some of the later versions (thnk numbering have changed, but says 2.24.23 in my comment) are definitely the problem. Too bad since Gentoo and other distributions are well beyond thst. Eventually I hope lazarus to catch up, but it have a long way to go.