[Lazarus] The right way of installing FPC to use with Lazarus?

[Marcos Douglas]

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Fr0sT <fr0st.brutal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all.
> I spent many time compiling FPC trunk to use with Lazarus trunk
> (succeeded after all) but still in doubts what's the right and
> simplest way of doing that? In other words, what make option would do
> the job?
> Lazarus requires rtl and package sources to lay inside <FPC>\sources
> while FPC provides them inside fpcsrc folder.
> - singlezipinstall option doesn't copy these folders
> - sourceinstall does but ignores binaries
> - install copies only binaries
> Moreover none of the options generates fpc.cfg which is necessary for
> Lazarus to operate.
>
> So I wonder how people compile fresh FPC releases to use with Lazarus
> and is there some king of automating scripts?
>
> I also wonder why there's no complete build guide somewhere in the
> website or README or somewhere else so that people could just follow
> the instructons and get what they want (I've read Installing Lazarus
> on the wiki indeed — it lacks some aspects).

What operational system do you use?
If you use Windows, try this:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus#Compiling.2Finstalling_FPC_and_Lazarus_from_Sources_of_SVN_.28Win32.29

Marcos Douglas