[Lazarus] Build scripts for Freepascal and Lazarus compilation from source

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Mon Oct 4 17:08:37 CEST 2010


On Sun, Oct 03, 2010 at 02:30:11PM +0100, Frank Church wrote:
> On 3 October 2010 13:23, Joshua Lim <joshua__lim at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Frank, do you have something for Win32?  Thanks.
> >
> >
> I don't have anything for Win32 yet, but it should be easy to convert. You
> only have to look out for the Windows gotchas. I will have tackle in the
> near future, but I wouldn't want to keep you wating.
> 
> Check Marco van de Voort's
> buildfaq<http://www.stack.nl/%7Emarcov/buildfaq.pdf>,
> Chapter 2.4.
> The wiki also has tips on compiling at
> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus#Compiling.2Finstalling_FPC_and_Lazarus_from_Sources_of_SVN_.28Win32.29
> 
> It is the type of article I don't like because you can learn a lot more from
> a  good well commented script with sensibly named variables (insert smug
> emoticon here) ;).

That you didn't like reading it is clear, because when you would have read
it more attentively, I wouldn't be getting just a

Error expanding embedded variable.

when I tried to run your script :-)
 




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