[fpc-pascal] Access violation during compilation and linking

[Tomas Hajny]

On Thu, March 12, 2009 12:51, Jonas Maebe wrote:
> Roland Turcan wrote on do, 12 mrt 2009:
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>> I have longer time a difficulty to solve this message when I try to
>> build fpc with "sudo make clean all":
>>
>> Makefile:2279: *** No libgdb.a found, supply NOGDB=1 to disable
>> debugger support.
>>
>> of course, then I use "sudo make clean all NOGDB=1" and it builds
>> fine, but without debugger support I need.
>>
>> I am a newbie to MacOSX 10.5 and therefore I would like to ask how to
>> install libgdb.a library which is requested.
>
> I don't understand this: the message you show only appears when
> building the text mode IDE, and the text mode IDE is not built for Mac
> OS X (unless you manually go into the IDE directory and execute make
> there).
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I believe I understand this: I guess he's starting the build in the
/fpcbuild svn repository checkout rather than /fpc (or the fpcsrc
directory within the /fpcbuild checkout). This is normal and should be no
problem, just the additional NOGDB parameter is necessary.

Tomas