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

[Marco van de Voort]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:13:19AM -0300, Marcos Douglas wrote:
> > I didn't find a starting compiler for windows, but for linux, darwin
> > and freebsd you can get ppcxxx from
> > ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.4.0/bootstrap/
> 
> As Win too! Look
> ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.4.0/bootstrap/ppc386-win32.zip
> Is this (important) information in somewhere (wiki, docs, etc)?

It will be in the next version of the buildfaq. But keep in mind that this
is only for devels that know what they are doing. The formal stand is to
install the previous release, and that remains that way. Specially on
windows/dos, where the release is not just about the compiler, but also
having the most recently approved binutils.