[Lazarus] Installing FPC/Lazarus on Windows using SVN, no binaries

[Juha Manninen]

shoKwave wrote:
> I don't think so. On Linux first you have to check all depending 
> packages (gdk-pixbuf-devel, gtk2-devel, libQt4-devel...) are installed 
> and on some distros packages are named different. Then do all things 
> discriped( without 5.1). And then you have create a symlink to your 
> ppcxxx binary by hand.

The first part is true but I didn't create symlinks by hand. "make install..." 
made it I guess.


> All platforms have their pros and cons.
> 
> What about MacOS X. As far as I tested yet it should be the same as 
> Linux. Am I right? A ".fpc.cfg" in HOME works, but how can I append the 
> PATH? Is there a ".profile" too?

Beneath the surface Mac is a full UNIX system.
Command line and config files should be pretty much like in Linux.
Unfortunately I don't have a Mac so I am not sure of the details.

Juha