On 5/30/20 2:57 PM, Juha Manninen via lazarus wrote: > On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 4:40 PM Brian via lazarus > <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote: >> Unless you have some reason to believe that the QT5 version of >> fpcupdeluxe doesn't build lazarus with QT5 bindings, I have already >> tried this idea and still seen the same problem. Yes, I deleted back >> EVERYTHING except for the actual fpcupdeluxe executable - all config >> files and the entire target directory - from the GTK2 build. Then I >> downloaded the QT5 version of the executable and ran that. Once again, >> it built, but I still saw the key mapping etc. problem. > > Yes I have a reason to believe so. > The LCL widgetset used for fpcupdeluxe executable does not affect how > Lazarus is built. > You can check the current widgetset of Lazarus executable from Help -> > About Lazarus. > > All this hassle proves that fpcupdeluxe should not be used for the > simple task of building native (OS, CPU) version of Lazarus trunk. > It only complicates things and confuses. > Getting sources and building Lazarus is so easy when FPC is already installed. > Things are different when you want FPC trunk. It is not as trivial. (*) > Cross-compilation is another good reason to use fpcupdeluxe. I have > understood it shines there. > > >> Since I've come this far, though, I guess I'm willing to try building >> the lazarus code downloaded via subversion with the QT5 bindings. Is >> there a web page, or some other documentation, that leads me though >> doing that? I've never previously built the QT5 version except the >> attempt to build it via fpcupdeluxe. > > As John Landmesser showed, Tools -> Configure "Build Lazarus" ... >
OK, my misunderstanding. I thought you were talking about a difference in actually building Lazarus from sources. I will give it a try. Brian. -- _______________________________________________ lazarus mailing list lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
