Error compilling CGE Editor on Windows 11

Editor
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Now I’m on Windows 11 trying to re-compile the editor (version 7.0-alpha3.snapshot) with custom components but it ends with this error (and a few related more):

C:\prog\motores\CastleGameEngine\tools\common-code\toolmanifest.pas(144,29) Error: (5000) Identifier not found “TProjectDependencies”

I’m using FPC 3.2.2 and Lazarus 3.4. On Linux I’m using FPC 3.2.0 and Lazarus 3.4 and it compiles without error but a few warnings.

I was about to upgrade Lazarus but the site is down right now.

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It seems you have multiple engine versions, old and new, and they get mixed up.

( This issue seems unrelated to Windows, FPC, Lazarus versions. )

In new CGE version,

  1. TProjectDependencies is defined in src/files/castleinternaltools.pas ( castle-engine/src/files/castleinternaltools.pas at master · castle-engine/castle-engine · GitHub ).
  2. And it is used by tools/common-code/toolmanifest.pas ( castle-engine/tools/common-code/toolmanifest.pas at master · castle-engine/castle-engine · GitHub ).

It seems in your case AD 2 is true, but AD 1 is not.

Likely, Lazarus remembers the package (lpk) location from older CGE.

Make sure to recompile lpk (from new CGE) using Lazarus first. Our Compiling from source | Manual | Castle Game Engine shows various ways that avoid this issue:

  • if you build the “build tool” from Lazarus, then before castle-engine/tools/build-tool/castle-engine.lpi rebuild packages/castle_base.lpk .
  • or there are other ways of building the “build tool”.
3

Actually I actualized CGE but I didn’t remove the old version.

Maybe the best option is to uninstall, clean and install it again.

Thanks.

4

Hm, you generally do not need to uninstall previous engine version if you “update in place”. Our Windows installer (if you download binaries from Download | Castle Game Engine ) has been specifically tested to ensure smooth upgrades (without the need to uninstall old version first).

Maybe there’s something we should fix – can you describe in more details

  • how did you install CGE originally? I can see that old version (known to Lazarus) is in C:\prog\motores\CastleGameEngine .
  • how did you update CGE?

Your messages did indicate you had 2 versions of CGE sources, one old (C:\prog\motores\CastleGameEngine) and one new.

( I understand you solved the issue anyway on your system. But in any case more info would be appreciated – we want to ensure “smooth upgrades” for people, without the need to uninstall. So if there’s some bug there, I’d like to fix it :slight_smile: )

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Sorry for the late answer. It’s a busy month.

  • how did you install CGE originally?

I don’t remember actually. I think I downloaded a zip or a tarball and unzipped.

  • how did you update CGE?

I downloaded the installer from the site and installed over it.

[Edit]
I’ve fixed this way:

  1. I’ve uninstalled CGE.
  2. I’ve removed the CGE directory because it had some files.
  3. I’ve removed CGE configuration files from C:/Users/<user>/AppData/Local
  4. I’ve installed CGE again.
  5. I’ve registered packages on Lazarus again.

This seems to work for me.