On 2015-08-17 00:52, DougC wrote: > Is there a similar (not any more complex) recommended way to handle > Lazarus installs that allows for multiple versions to be > simultaneously installed and used interchangeably?
When you say "multiple versions", do you mean a copy of Lazarus using multiple versions of FPC, or do you mean multiple copies of Lazarus? If you meant the first, the only thing you can do in Lazarus is to go to "Tools ยป Options" and specify the full path to FPC and do a FPC Source Rescan. Lazarus will remember the last few compiler paths, so when you need to change them again, it will simply be a selection in the ComboBox. If you meant the latter - multiple Lazarus copies - that is possible too. Again, I never use any package managers for Lazarus, I simply download and unpack the source code release and build Lazarus (normally with the latest stable FPC) from the command line. Any subsequent rebuilds, I'll do via the dialog inside Lazarus IDE itself. I install the stable version into ~/devel/lazarus/ , and then use Git to checkout the trunk one in ~/devel/lazarus-trunk/ On my desktop or window manager I would then setup two shortcuts to both Lazarus executables. The stable one is just the path to "lazarus". For the Trunk one I would setup the shortcut with the path to the unstable lazarus, and specify the --pcp=<my_new_config_dir> so the unstable one uses a different config directory to the stable one. Hope this helps. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
