Library Paths Delphi Rio - search

I've installed Delphi RIO and when I add paths to the Library search path, it doesn't recognize the paths I enter. I'm being forced to add all the modules to my project in order to get it to see the files.
Does anyone know how to fix this?

Maybe you add library paths to the win32 environment and your project compiles to 64 bit, or visa versa?

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Configuring VC++ for WxWidgets

I am trying to follow this guide
to configure VC++ for WxWidgets. I got stuck here.
So for Core wxWidgets libraries to include, I did include wxmsw31u[d]_core.lib and wxbase31u[d].lib under Linker>>Input>>Additional Depenedencies. That is all to it right?
As for Linking with correct runtime library, can someone tell me how that is done? I manage to get here but don't know how to set the indicated settings.
Please help. I really appreciate it.
When you want to debug your app the debugger must know where in the compiled code is each function used. In jargon, the "debugging symbols". Windows puts these symbols in the compiled executable, while Linux uses another, .devfile.
When you compile code (your app or wxWidgets library) you must tell the compiler whether you want a "Debug" version or a "Release" one.
If you want the debugger to be able to step into wxWidgets code, then you must compile wxWidgets in "debug" mode, which will add the character d to the library files built. So, you must add, for example, wxmsw31ud_core.lib to your app dependencies. Notice the d between u and _. Use the file explorer to see all files generated by wxWidgets compilation process.
Perhaps you don't want all this wxWidgets "debug". Then use another wxWidgets compilation route and add wxmsw31u_core.lib instead of the d'd version. Still you can compile your own app in debug mode, but not being able to step through wxWidgets internals.
Now for your app, a) do you want a single executable file also containing wxWidgets code? or b) let your app in a .exe file which uses as needed external .dll files?
a) is called "static linkage" while b) is called "dynamic linkage"
As you can see, there are four combinations of debug/release & static/dynamic. You must choose one "runtime library" to link to your app.
The table in the wiki shows the switch and MSVC lib (select the desired combination in the 'properties' page) to use in your app; and macro definition required to build wxWidgets if you use nmake instead of the already provided configurations in VS.
Take a look at docs\msw\install.txt for more info.
The best advice I give is that you look into "minimal" sample project. Load it into VS and read every option. You can even make a copy, change some file names and use it for your own app.
I recommend using the official instructions instead of the wiki, they're simpler and, if you look at the last paragraph, you can see that you don't even have to link the libraries manually with MSVC.
You also don't need to do anything special to link with the correct version of the CRT, the defaults are just fine.

How to make OmniPascal work with FPC?

I've installed both FreePascal compiler and OmniPascal extension for VisualStudio code, but code completion doesn't work. In the manual you are saying that I need to write the path to Delphi compiler int the user settings, but nothing is said about FPC.
Set the omnipascal.freePascalSourcePath setting to the folder that contains the FreePascal sources
Set the omnipascal.defaultDevelopmentEnvironment setting to FreePascal
Restart Visual Studio Code.
Example:
"omnipascal.freePascalSourcePath": "C:\\lazarus\\fpc"
"omnipascal.defaultDevelopmentEnvironment": "FreePascal"
This will instruct the OmniPascal language server to lookup Pascal units (.pas and .pp files) in that directory and all its subtrees recursively.

Setting up ARM Toolchain in Qt Creator (Ardupilot project)

I'm starting a drone project based on Ardupilot and trying to build Ardupilot project using Qt Creator, following this instructions . I'm working with Ubuntu, BTW.
You've probably find this stupid (cause it probably is), but I'm not able to set up the compiler (in spite of having the instructions):
As suggested, I downloaded the compiler from here, and tried to follow the instructions but after choosing a custom compiler in 'Build & Run', the 'Make path' is driving me crazy and I have no idea of which path is that (in other words, the equivalent to the file 'make.exe' in Windows, see the image attached), since there doesn't seem to be anything similar in the compiler folder and it doesn't seem to refer to the Makefile of the project.
Hope anyone can help me, as you've surely noticed, I'm pretty new to big, real projects and also to Linux itself.
Thanks in advance,
Eduardo
PD:
Instructions provided (both Windows & Linux):
Linux: Which one is the 'Make path'?
The build directory should point to ardupilot/ArduCopter if you are building for Copter
In the example it was pointing to ardupilot
Compiler path: /opt/gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_9-2015q3/bin/arm-none-eabi-gcc
The make file path: /usr/bin/make
First. What version of qt? If it's 5.7 then the 2015 toolkit won't work. If you're new to Linux then you should definitely stay with a prior version of qt 5.7 until someone has compiled a new toolkit that supports a c++11 compiler.
You don't have enough info on what you're doing to give a good answer though.
What do you need the program to do? If it's Qt3d on Arm then you have a big problem only 5.7 will do.
Hope this helps.

Qt Creator: add Qt module to project

So when I create a new Qt project inside Qt Creator I'm only asked for some simple details like location of the project, build targets, the main window class name (along with header, source and form file) and at the enda choice to add it to version control.
After I create the project I'm only given the qt core and gui modules. My question is how do I add other modules (such as network or opengl). I've looked and looked, yet I cannot find anything on how to add other Qt modules easily. I know I can edit the .pro file, but unfortunately I don't know all the modules in Qt, nevermind the name I'm supposed to put there. Adding external libraries is easy, but how come there's no (obvious) option to add Qt libraries?
Help would be much appreciated ^_^ Thanks!
Oh yeah... I'm running Arch Linux if that's any help.
Edit your .pro file. It should has one line like this:
QT += core gui
Append the desired modules in this line. To get the module's names, just remove the "Qt" part in this list. (e.g. QtSql turns "sql")
I can't find that either.
It seems that in older versions of the "New project" wizard you used to be able to specify which modules you wanted to use, but even then you were not able to alter your choice later. And this seems gone now, so your only choice is to manually edit the .pro file.
As others have pointed out, you simply #include the module you want in the source and add the name of the module in the .pro file to the QT variable.
However the actual documentation you need which no one else has mentioned is the qmake Project Files page. qmake is very powerful and it's well worth getting familiar with how it works and I think that's why they don't provide a complete GUI for it, as it can handle some very complex scenarios.
You have to read the documentation to add the modules.
Frankly speaking, I never really felt like that there needs to be a GUI for that.

Visual C++ Express How Exactly Do I Link A Third Party Library DLL

YES, I have seen the posts that all you need to do is link it. Find you .lib and link. I have 10 years IT experience and its not at all clear to me where/how the link settings are made. This is a DLL that is not in another project. I have the lib and I have spent hours just trying to find out how to pull this in. Just curious, why there is not some tab saying external libraries, and a browse button to goto whereever you stored this on your file system? I just don't get the multiple steps to get this file linked up. Someone please spell it out. I'm on Visual C++ Express 2010.
Did you try just using "Add Existing File to Project", browsing to the .lib and adding it? Visual Studio recognizes the file type and passes .lib files to the linker.
There's another way which is more complicated and also more powerful. You can open the project properties by right-clicking the project in Solution Explorer. Then go to the Project Directories and add the path to the LIB paths, then go to Linker Input and add the library name (without path) under additional inputs. The advantage of this second method is that you can have different versions of the .lib and .dll for release vs debug, or 32-bit vs 64-bit builds.
In addition to Bens answer, you can also use pragma directives:
#pragma comment ( lib, "path-to-library-file.lib" )
Some prefer linking libraries in the project, others prefer it in the source file. It doesn't make much of a difference either way.

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