[Pkg-pascal-devel] Bug#967564: Going to remove dependency of FPC on GTK2

[Abou Al Montacir]

Hi Christoph

On Mon, 2026-03-09 at 15:08 +0100, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Re: Abou Al Montacir
> > I'm going to remove any dependency of fp-units-gtk2* into gtk2
> > libs.
> > This will imply that users will need to install the libs manually.
> > 
> > This will be only a first step. We will be probably providing
> > `gir2pas`
> > once it becomes stable and stop shipping gtk bindings or generate
> > gtk
> > binding using `gir2pas` automatically. Anyway, the main idea is to
> > stop
> > shipping GTK2 bnding within FPC but as a separate project, just
> > like we
> > do for Qt bindings.
> > 
> > For now, the only solution I see for Lazarus is to stop shipping
> > GTK based IDE and fallback on Qt IDE.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> what's the status here? The pascal packages in the Ham radio team
> have
> been migrated to use Qt, but they are still on the Gtk2 AUTORM list
> because of this bug.
FPC is back to testing after removal of dependency on gtk2.

There is a patch proposed on upstream to fix GT3 lazarus, but it was not accepted as they plan to release 5.0 later this year.

I recommend we take this patch and use it to close this ticket while recommending users to use Qt6 fo now.
-- 
Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir
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