On 2020-07-04 at 11:28, Boyuan Yang wrote: > In your case, I do not see any build system in your source code > repository. There is a built binary file but there's no script or > instructions describing how the built binary was generated. I have > absolutely no idea how you were building the Pascal source code into > binaries. My best guess is that you are using the building function > embedded in Lazarus IDE -- which is completely unacceptable since a > working build system should be fully automated and require no > graphical IDE tool to function well.
For what it's worth, there appears to exist a tool called 'lazbuild', which is apparently supposed to be able to compile a program from the command line if passed the appropriate Lazarus project file. I find two different versions of it in Debian, both in the lcl-utils-2.0 package. Also, https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?topic=37272.0 involves people talking about how to build a Lazarus project from the command line; they appear to have gotten it working without the use of lazbuild in at least one case, but whether that's worth the effort I don't know. If that's viable, there may not be any need to add a separate build system, although there would still be a need to add appropriate how-to-build documentation and (of course) the necessary debian/rules glue to get it to be run at package-build time. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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