[Lazarus] Tutorial Compiling/installing FPC and Lazarus from Sources of SVN

[Marcos Douglas]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:05 AM, waldo kitty <wkitty42 at windstream.net> wrote:
> On 7/22/2010 22:01, Reimar Grabowski wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:02:13 -0400
>> waldo kitty<wkitty42 at windstream.net>  wrote:
>>
>>>> Then you know what you are doing
>>>
>>> is that a requirement? especially when one simply wants to write a
>>> program
>>> ("hello world" for instance) and compile it for each of the available
>>> platforms ;)
>>
>> Understanding is always a requirement. If you want "hello world" on many
>> platforms and building a FPC cross-compiler is to complex, then perhaps you
>> have the wrong tool for the job.
>
> and here i thought that you were bright enough to understand that "hello
> world" was an example :?
>
> yes, i understand what you are saying however, remember that the point i'm
> coming from is from that of the "average joe coder" who has no need of
> understanding all the deep intricacies of everything... they only want to
> simply and easily set up their environment so that they can "write once and
> compile everywhere" even if that means compiling for platforms that they
> don't even have access to ;)

About waldo said, I understood that:
This things not need to be so hard, because they aren't.
For example, do not had a ppc386 for Windows in FTP, but now has (thanks Marco).
Now, we have a ppc386 for Windows, the compilation is easy and will be
more easy to test FPC, eg. a "Hello world".


MD