installing zeos on debian buster [fixed]

[paulderfinne]

Hello all zeos-fans,
I'm new here, so hello to all of you.
I have used zeos for a several years now and have a lot of programs using this library. Now I have updated my debian system to buster (vers 10) and have installed lazarus 2.0.0 on this machine. And of course I need zeos. Unfortunately the building crashes with the comment

cannot find fpdebug used by lazarus

The fpdebug directory is in the directory: /usr/lib/lazarus/2.0.0/components, where I guess it should be. The debian program-installer put it there.

I thank you for any help

Paul

[marsupilami]

Hello Paul,

yesterday I installed Lazarus on my debian system. Getting things to work correctly was painful. I am not sure wether this is to be considered a Debian bug or a Lazarus bug. When trying to install any components in my Lazarus, I always had to open and recompile the following packages beforehand:

• fpdebug
• lazcontrols/lazcontroldsgn
• lclextensions
• virtualtreeview
• onlinepackagemanager

So the current suggestion could be:

• Open all these packages and recompile them. Keep them open because otherwise Lazarus might forget to remember where they are. Then compile all Zeos related packages and install them.
• Another solution might be to just download Lazarus and compile it yourself in your home directory. In that case Lazarus most probably will remember where all the compiled packages are.
• Or you might extend your fpc.cfg to know that there are additional units in ~/.lazarus/<FPC-Target>/<LCL-Target>

Note: This is not a Zeos bug. It is the current behaviour of Lazarus on Debian.

Best regards,

Jan

[paulderfinne]

Thank you very much Jan for your help. I will asap try your suggestions.

Greetings

Paul

[paulderfinne]

Thank you very much Jan, I did what you recommended and you were right. Now my lazarus + zeos work.