[Lazarus] Lazarus 0.9.30.4RC2 available for download

[Richard Mace]

On 14 March 2012 15:25, Andrew Haines <AndrewD207 at aol.com> wrote:

> On 03/14/12 10:59, Koenraad Lelong wrote:
> > On 14-03-12 15:12, Bart wrote:
> > ...
> >>
> >> Alternatively just install fpc 2.6.0 and build Lazarus from sources.
> >>
> >> Bart
> >
> > Bart,
> > I wanted to report my experience with installing the new lazarus, with
> > ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
> > It's been a while I used lazarus under linux, so I'll have to search for
> > a how-to, to make lazarus from sources.
> >
>
>
> This is my process for setting up fpc and lazarus on a new computer
>
> 1) I create a folder
>
> mkdir ~/programming
> cd ~/programming
>
>
> 2) download and extract a bootstrap compiler from:
>
> ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.6.0/bootstrap/
>
> yours is probably
> wget
> ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.6.0/bootstrap/i386-linux-ppc386.bz2
> or
>
> ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.6.0/bootstrap/x86_64-linux-ppcx64.bz2
>
> tar -jxf ./*.ppc*.bz2
>
> 3) download freepascal
>
> 3-a) fpc trunk (2.7.1)
>
> svn checkout http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/trunk fpc
>
> 3-b) fpc fixes (2.6.1) basically 2.6.0 with patches that fix bugs found
> in 2.6.0
>
> if you would rather use the released fpc then maybe the fixes branch is
> what you want:
>
> svn checkout
> http://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/branches/fixes_2_6/ fpc-2.6.1
>
> 4) download lazarus
>
> svn checkout http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/trunk lazarus
>
> 5) compile and install fpc
>
> cd ./fpc
> PP=~/programming/ppc386 make all
> sudo PP=~/programming/ppc386 make install
>
> 6) create and /etc/fpc.cfg file
>
> ./utils/fpcmkcfg/fpcmkcfg -o /etc/fpc.cfg
>
> edit /etc/fpc.cfg file and search replace "-Fu/units/" with
> "-Fu/usr/local/lib/fpc/$fpcversion/units/"
>
> 7) compile lazarus
>
> cd ../lazarus
> make all
>
> create a link to lazarus in /usr/bin so you don't have to "install" lazarus
>
> sudo ln -s ~/programming/lazarus/lazarus /usr/bin/
>
> that's it.
>
>
> For convenience I sometimes link /usr/local/lib/fpc to /usr/lib/fpc
>
> Regards,
>
> Andrew
>

This is great info Andrew.
I'll try it on Ubuntu 12.04 later.

Richard
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