[lazarus] I am new here ...

[Michael.VanCanneyt at Wisa.be]

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Luciano Barcaro wrote:

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> 
> Michael.VanCanneyt at Wisa.be wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Prometheus wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>i wrote in a kylix borland newsgroup, it would be a wonderfull thing,
> >>to have one delphi for win32, .NET (grrrr) and LINUX!
> >>... and Borland will not do it, because of Microsoft-Investment in Borland,
> >>and Mircosoft will not like to see a software-rich LINUX, with 1000ths of
> >>Delphi-Developers ...
> >>
> >>Someone wrote there: look for Lazarus ...
> >>And i did!
> >>I was surprised an also a little sad ...
> >>At first: Wonderfull, and then, oh, no TDataset, mhm, and and
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >There _is_ a TDataset. Just not BDE or DBExpress. Currently there is minimal
> >support for mysql,sqlite, DBF files and Interbase. 
> >
> >(you need to rebuild the IDE with packages enabled to see MySQL and
> >Interbase support)
> >  
> >
> Sorry my stupid question, but, how can I install it ?
> I´m using lazarus (cvs) and freepascal 1.0.10 (win32)

The following should more or less do it:

1. Menu 'Components' 'Open package'. 
   - Open all packages you want to install, and click the install button.
   If no packages are shown:
   Menu 'Components' 'Open Package File'.
   Package files are located in the lazarus/components directory - each
   package has a subdirectory. Open file and click 'install'
2. Menu 'tools' - 'Configure build lazarus'
   Check the 'With packages' option.

3. Menu 'Tools'- 'Build lazarus'. This will rebuild lazarus with packages.

4. Restart IDE. There should be new tabs with components from the requested packages.

Michael.