[Lazarus] FPC 2.4.2 and Lazarus

[Joost van der Sluis]

On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 13:08 +0300, Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis wrote:
> On Thu, 20 May 2010 11:40:09 +0200, Joost van der Sluis <joost at cnoc.nl>
> wrote:
> 
> < snip >
> 
> > But maybe it would be very useful if you help with the basic testing.
> > When a release is build (relatively simple) you always have to test it
> > on an 'empty' system. You could help with that.
> > 
> > And, offcourse, you could try to build a release right now, using the
> > fpc-2.4.1 branch. For as many as possible releases. Marco has posted url
> > which explain how to do it. And report all problems you encounter. So
> > that the chances that 'we' encounter them when we are building the
> > official releases, don't have any problems.
> 
> I'm already in the process of setting up a box with VMware ESXi 4. It will
> be a 
> test bed and a build farm machine. It has a lot of RAM and is powerfull
> enough to 
> serve that purpose. 
> 
> Is it possible to give me a list of OS's you think i can help ? I can do
> Linux, 
> Windows (win32, win64, wince) and some OSX ( I also have installed 
> hackintosh 10.5.8 on my machine on a spare disk ... ) 

Hackintosh could be easy for the first test, but I doubt Jonas will
accept a release of fpc build on it. ;)

Take a look at the download-page of freepascal. What I miss is Linux 32
and 64 bit. (rpm and deb based. Plus our own installer in .tar format)

And FreeBSD (32 and 64 bit, Marco?), arm-linux. 

Joost.