[Lazarus] Lazarus Manager

[Joshua Lim]

Hi Kjow, the attachment got filtered, so i'll post the top part here:

set OLDDIR=%CD%
set PATHDEST=D:\Develop
set PATH=%PATH%;%PATHDEST%\fpc\binutils\
set OLDPATH=%PATH%
set SVN=Slik-Subversion-1.6.12-win32.msi
set FPCURL=http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/freepascal/Win32/2.4.0
set FPCNAME=fpc-2.4.0.i386-win32.exe

Joshua Lim wrote:
> Hi Kjow,
>
> Thanks for your kind work.  As someone with no experience with SVN (i 
> tried turtle SVN on another Laz wiki page w/o success), your batch 
> script appears to be my only solution.
>
> So yesterday, I've tried the windows batch script on my XP PC, there 
> were a couple of hiccups like CHOICE not found, but in the end, the 
> script ran till the end.  Briefly, the script installed FPC2.4.0, Slik 
> SVN, restarted windows, I ran the batch again, it downloaded lots of 
> files (which took more than an hour, so I left the PC running and went 
> to bed).  The next day, I saw the following screen.  However,  
> D:\Develop\Lazarus\ folder did not exist so the installation failed to 
> complete.
>
> The last screen of the batch was:-
>
> BEFORE start first time Lazarus, remember to add to the System PATH:
> D:\Develop\fpc\2.4.0\
> D:\Develop\fpc\binutils\
>
> To start Lazarus run:
> D:\Develop\Lazarus\startlazarus.exe
>
> Nothing else to do. Exit.
> Press any key to continue . . .
>
> I tried again, press D, and the folders at the end of the installation:
>
> D:\Develop\fpc\binutils\files here.....
> D:\Develop\fpc\2.4.0_org\files here....
> D:\Develop\tools\svn_sources\empty here...
> D:\Develop\tools\tools\empty here...
>
> I also used the following:
> REM svn co http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/tags/release_2_4_0 fpc
> svn co http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/trunk fpc
>
> There's an FI.done file with OK written.
>
> Just a note for other XP users, XP didn't have choice.exe, so I had to 
> copy that from my Windows 2003 Server windows folder.  Before that, I 
> spent about half an hour Googling for choice.exe, apparently many of 
> those on the Internet are of different version and don't work.
>
> I've attached the script zipped for your further reference.  I'll be 
> deleting all the folders, try again and report the status.
>
> Rgds,
> Joshua 
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