PassBuild Lazarus directory fpc and agg & freetype not working

[ChrigiGee]

Hi @graemeg,

I used today 1.7 of PassBuild compiled by myself with Lazarus fpc.
Possible fpc 32bit works. I don't know.

Error Message fpc not found or agg & freetype not found.
Reistall fpc x64 agg & freetype not found.

Path on Windows edit to the directory of Lazarus.
agg & freetype not found.

Best I saw now, use ppcx64.exe and no longer fpc.exe
with Directory fpc he need fpc.exe now no more.

agg & freetype ot possible to compiled fpGUI. Without any option works.

[ERROR] agg_conv_gpc.pas(43,2) Fatal: Can't find unit gpc used by agg_conv_gpc
[ERROR] Fatal: Compilation aborted
[ERROR] Error: H:\lazarus\fpc\3.2.2\bin\x86_64-win64\ppcx64.exe returned an error exitcode
[ERROR] Build failed with exit code: 1 (see target\pasbuild-status\compile\fpc.log for details)
[ERROR] Goal failed: compile

I will try same scenario with 32bit passbuild...

Chris

[graemeg]

Hi Chris. Thanks for taking the time to file a support ticket. Could you perhaps attach the target\pasbuild-status\compile\fpc.log file? That would be very helpful it working out what's going on.

So the agg_conv_gpc.pas is not referenced anywhere in fpGUI's framework code — it was deliberately moved to extras/ directory due to licensing concerns.

Now I see you mentioned Lazarus fpc, which ships with its own copy of AggPas. And I believe the FPC included with Lazarus, uses a fpc.cfg file that adds Lazarus package directories. That might be causing a conflict with the AggPas copy included with fpGUI.

Are you using the latest fpGUI code?

[ChrigiGee]

Hi Graemeg,

the 1.7 PassBuild Source and the last version fpgui release source.

Try with Installed FPC it's not found the agg and freetype so I think with the Lazarus FPC Directory.
Was also not really the lucky moment.

I saw later in the source of fpGUI was agg and freetype but why not found and search by the FPC I don't know just now.
I try without edit source and the first, it's exist for Linux and I try to compile on Windows. Possible there a problem ?
To compile PassBuild I use mingw x64 and fpc from Lazarus (Windows)

fpc.log

[graemeg]

After the v2.0.3 release, the agg_conv_gpc.pas unit was moved out of the 'corelib\render\software` directory due to licensing concerns - even though that unit wasn't explicitly used by fpGUI's AggCanvas class. This change will be part the next fpGUI release (coming in the next day or two).

Regardless of the gpc unit, based on your 'fpc.log' the compilation of the fpGUI framework itself was successful. From the fpc command seen, it executed the corelib\render\software path - which is correct, because it showed it never declared -dAggCanvas. So that compiled version of the framework would use the native GDI canvas and Windows font rendering. So no AggPas and no Freetype library would be needed.