[lazarus] New Install for Win32 FreePascal

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Michael A. Hess wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> I have created a complete installation package for the Windows version
> of Free Pascal. It lets you install it any place on your machine that
> you wish. It configures the autoexec.bat it also rewrites the ppc386.cfg
> to use the installation location for files. All works great except for
> one little problem.
> 
> The problem is in the generated link.res file. For one of the SEARCH_DIR
> lines it is using the longfiles name for a directory instead of the
> short file name. It only occurs with the one line. When this is changed
> to match the others everything works great. Below is an excerp from the
> link.res file so you can see the problem.
> 
> What generates this link.res file and can we get it to use convert to
> use the short file names? Onces this is fixed it will be possible to
> install Free Pascal anyplace on your machine.

The compiler generates this file for the linker. I do not know
if the linker supports this.

Simply suggest c:\pp as the standard directory.
Why would you install Free Pascal under Program files ?
It will be a pain to use, don't forget this is a command-line tool !
If you ever tried to run a command that resides under program files
from the prompt, you'll know what I mean.

> 
> Any easy solutions so that I can distrbute this installer today?

No easy ones, except not installing it there.
(
you should be banned from the programmer's society for doing so
in the first place, in my opinion :)
)

Michael.