[Lazarus] How to compile lazarus from its SVN source in WinXP?

[Joost van der Sluis]

Op maandag 06-04-2009 om 13:37 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Bogusław
Brandys:
> Popeye Spinach wrote:
> > 
> > I have checked out latest lazarus from SVN using TortoiseSVN. I have 
> > also downloaded FPC 2.2.2 installer and fpcbuild2.2.2.
> >  
> > What then now? I coudn't follow the instructions in http://wiki.lazarus. 
> > freepascal.org/Getting_ Lazarusi 
> > <http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Getting_Lazarusi>. The information 
> > for compiling under WinXP seems has outdated. Please somebody here tell 
> > me how to do that?

> What is fpcbuild ???

It's the official source-zip from which fpc-releases are build. They
include the source but also the documentation sources and several
utilities which aren't written in fpc but are installed by the
fpc-installers. Plus things as the release-notes.

Joost.