<html><head></head><body><div>Hi David,</div><div><br></div><div>On Sun, 2023-01-01 at 18:34 +1100, David Bannon wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>Said Samuel -</p><pre><i>Yes, we had discussed it a bit in #967798, it is an issue in Lazarus:
fp-units-gtk2-3.2.0 used to have the libgtk2.0-dev dependency, but
fp-units-gtk2-3.2.2 doesn't any more, <b>but it should</b>, it shouldn't be up
to users of the gtk2 unit to know which C dependency it should take.</i></pre><p></p><p>I disagree (in my ignorance). If Lazarus has a dependency (and it does) on libgtk2.0-dev then its Lazarus that should be marked as having that dependency, not FPC.<br></p></blockquote><div>Agree</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>We tell Lazarus users they must install libgtk2.0-dev before building Lazarus here -https://wiki.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus_on_Linux#Build_Lazarus_from_Source (disclaimer, its not an independent reference, I wrote it). <br></p><p>The same should apply to GTK2 based apps not using Lazarus (maybe Castle Game Engine ?), if you want to use the GTK2 widget set, install its -dev package.<br></p></blockquote><div>Agree</div><pre style="caret-color: rgb(46, 52, 54); color: rgb(46, 52, 54); font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">-- <br></pre><pre style="caret-color: rgb(46, 52, 54); color: rgb(46, 52, 54); font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir</pre><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><p></p></blockquote></body></html>