Installing package without IDE on Lazarus from command line

Question

I am trying to automate installing of my package to IDE from the command line using (this) article.

When using IDE the package is installed correctly and my components appear on Lazarus palette.
To verify the article steps, after installation with IDE I copied idemake.cfg, packagefiles.xml and staticpackages.inc files from C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Local\lazarus to a temp folder, so I have my package registered there.

Then tried without success:
1. uninstalled my package from IDE
2. called make clean all from c:\Lazarus
3. called lazbuild and built my package
4. copied all the kept files (idemake.cfg, packagefiles.xml and staticpackages.inc) to C:\Users\<user_name>\AppData\Local\lazarus
5. copied kept idemake.cfg to c:\Lazarus
6. created .lpl file for my package and placed that in C:\Lazarus\packager\globallinks
7. finally called make idepkg from C:\Lazarus
8. alternatively tried make bigide and lazbuild --build-ide= with same result

When Lazarus IDE was built and started I could see my package among the installed packages but marked with the green "+". The palette also missed my components.
If I select then Tool -> Build Lazarus with profile: Build IDE with Packages, this makes my package installed correctly after IDE is rebuilt the second time.

Version info:

Lazarus: 0.9.30.2
FPC: 2.4.4
OS: Win 7

Am I missing something? Is there alternative to register packages from the command line without IDE?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Lazbuild in current Lazarus (at least as far back as 1.0RC1) has been extended to be able to install packages. For this, you can use the --add-package and --build-ide together. See the lazbuild wiki article