[Lazarus] FPC 2.3.x and Lazarus

[Marc Weustink]

Marc Weustink wrote:
> Thierry Andriamirado wrote:
>> Le vendredi 11 juillet 2008 à 15:27 +0000, Antonio Sanguigni a écrit :
>>
>>
>>> so may I have both compiler versions ? What about path clashes ? 
>> I have 2 fpc & 2 lazarus installed on my Ubuntu box, and I have no
>> particular problem. 
>>  
>> fpc: once your svn update is finished, in, say /usr/local/src
>> directory, 
>> * 'make all'
>> * then 'make zipinstall'
> 
> what you also can do instead of make zipinstall is
> * make install PREFIX=/usr/local/lib/fpc
> 
> or as I do,
> * make install PREFIX=~
> this wat it installs the lib, bin dirs in my homedir.

oops forgot one thing. When installed this way, the version of fpc is 
retrieved form the existing *installed* fpc. To tell make to use the new 
  ppc use:
  * make install PREFIX=/usr/local/lib/fpc 
PP=/usr/local/src/fpc/compiler/ppc386

Marc
> 
> 
> 
>> note that I didn't do any system-wide install of the svn version of fpc.
>> the zipinstall will create a big zipfile, for eg.
>> 'fpc-2.3.1.x86_64-linux.tar.gz'.
>>
>> * unzip the '/lib/fpc' directory to '/usr/local/lib/fpc'
>> * check that your '/etc/fpc.cfg' file contains something like:
>>
>> # searchpath for units and other system dependent things
>> -Fu/usr/local/lib/fpc/$fpcversion/units/$fpctarget
>> -Fu/usr/local/lib/fpc/$fpcversion/units/$fpctarget/*
>> -Fu/usr/local/lib/fpc/$fpcversion/units/$fpctarget/rtl
>>
>> * Configure Lazarus accordingly, so it uses the svn fpc binary and so
>> on..
>>
>> You can find the multiple lazarus HowTo on
>> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Multiple_Lazarus
>>
>>> I'm using Arch Linux. I had a look at fpc 2.2.0 PKGBUILD, I should try
>>> to create one for 2.3.x .
>> As I said, I mainly use Ubuntu & Debian, but it'd work..
>>
>> Best,
>>
> 
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