On 2017-11-02 10:31, James Richters wrote:
I'm curious if it really needs to be installed?
FPC and Lazarus can run just fine without an installer. In fact, that is how I've been running FPC and Lazarus under Linux and FreeBSD for the last 10 years. The problem under Windows was that I couldn't get hold of a v3.0.2 FPC binary. The only Windows installer for FPC requires admin rights to run, which I couldn't do on my work laptop.
But now that Michael mentioned the Inno Setup Unpacking tool, I managed to unpack the setup. Now I can copy that to my home folder setup the fpc.cfg and then go from there (compile fpGUI, compile Lazarus etc.).
The FPC team really should consider releasing a Windows binary zip release too. It really wouldn't be any extra effort as they already prep everything for Inno Setup, so a simply ZIP command is all that would be needed.
Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
