Problem moving from Linux to Windows

[mike parr]

Hi  -   I have a Laz project which compiles and runs fine on Ubuntu (Laz version 9.29) but when compiling on Windows 7(Laz 9.28) I get:


Compiling resource C:\linuxStuff\lazcode\tygogogui\unit1.lfm
cpp.exe: stdout: Invalid argument
c:\lazarus\fpc\2.2.4\bin\i386-win32\windres.exe: can't open file `TTMainForm': No such file or directory
unit1.pas(800,1) Error: Error while linking

...where unit1 is a source file containing the definition of a class named TTMainForm.

I am just opening the files from Linux, not importing/converting.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Mike

[felipemdc]

Use the same version of Lazarus in both of them.

[IPguy]

re: stay with the same version
I agree with that advice.  I work with a 0.9.29 version and I have been unable to compile my app using the 0.9.28 release.  It appears that an app developed in 0.9.29 may not be (generally? always?) backwards compilable in 0.9.28.

[Leledumbo]

From my experience, there's a little backward compatibility problem between 0.9.28 and 0.9.29 regarding resources. 0.9.28 was shipped with FPC 2.2.4 when FPC doesn't have native resources yet, so it put this in the .lpr:

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{$IFDEF WINDOWS}{$R projectname.rc}{$ENDIF}
However, since FPC 2.4.0 came out, Lazarus started to use native FPC resources, so the line now becomes:

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{$R *.res}
0.9.28 project which gets opened in 0.9.29 will have {$R *.res} automatically added since the IDE thinks that the line is missing.

A solution would be to use conditional switch for LCL version (I forgot the define, please compile using -vc and find it out yourself).

[mike parr]

Thanks to all responders - I will investigate.  (been away - could not use www)
Mike