On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:03:06 +0300, "Juha Manninen (gmail)" <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Wednesday 13 October 2010 23:22:48 Bo Berglund wrote: >> But the pages I have visited decribing how the compilation of Lazarus >> is done has masses of commands of various kinds including discussions >> on what compiler options are best to use etc etc etc. > >Yes, the instructions on wiki pages and elsewhere are messy. >I tried to improve it but it was half-baked, too. It really should be >improved, and a real "click one button" GUI installation program is needed. > >Anyway, actually building Lazarus is easy : > >1. Install FPC 2.4.x from SourceForge. I guess you have done it already. No >need to build FPC. > >2. Get Lazarus trunk using cmd line svn or TortoiseSVN. You have done that, >too, already. > >3. "make bigide". > >The numerous scripts + a messy wiki page have just confused you instead of >helping. I know the feeling from my own installation experiments. > Thanks, I got fpc-2.4.0.i386-win32 released in Dec 2009 from SF. I also got the combined lazarus-0.9.28.2-fpc-2.2.4-win32 with an earlier release. Both are binary installers. If I run the FPC installer I will get 2.4.0 and if I then run the Lazarus installer it may or may not install FPC 2.2.4. I hope it will detect the existing 2.4.0 fpc and *not* use the 2.2.4 version it is bundled with. But is this the case? Or does the lazarus installer not check that there is already a newer FPC on the system and skip the fpc 2.2.4 installation? In that case ther will be two different FPC versions installed; so which will be used by any compile command issued? Unfortunately our firewall does not let svn calls through so I can't use the svn sources at work... Bo Berglund -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
