wp and dbannon, thank you so much for your replies.
I had very carefully read the .txt file that comes with this wonderful gift to the world.
Unsurprisingly, I missed right up top where the author declares it is a win32 application.
So as usual when I'm thinking I might have to reinvent something real complicated, it's because I overlooked something stupid, and it's me that's stupid.
I'll retry it and report back. THANK YOU for pointing that out.
--Wyatt--
EDIT1:
Working down the list, everything is straightforward until I get to this:
Open the .lpr in Lazarus, confirm to create a project from it. Add "interfaces" as first unit to "uses".
So the 'create project from file' doesn't take .lpr in the dialog box, but does present Mainunit.pas as one of the choices, so I tried that.
Add "interfaces" as first unit to "uses".
I was able to do that at the top of 'MainUnit'.
you must either cross-compile to 32 bit
Apparently I can't do that ... trying to set the target cpu and OS in the options dialog tells me I can't.
install the 32-bit Lazarus (in addition to the existing installation, as "secondary installation" which will not interfere with the 64-bit installation)
I'll try that and report back.
Edit2:
Still working on 32 bit.
Thanks,
--Wyatt--