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

[Marco van de Voort]

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:08:02PM -0300, Marcos Douglas wrote:
> Whenever I used the Lazarus on Windows, has been through the binary
> compiled. Simply download and install.
> Now I'm want to install Lazarus on Windows but not
> using the binaries already compiled. The reason is that I want to
> use SVN to be able to make updates to the sources (FPC and
> Lazarus) as they are released by the team.
> 
> Can I download all the SVN, but if there are problems to compile,
> I could to use binaries already compiled by the team of Lazarus? Is it
> the better way?

In the case of FPC on windows, best to install the last release
(2.4.0/win32), take a copy of that dir, and copy the handcompiled snapshot
over it.

On *nix you don't need the release so much, and a proper starting compiler is
enough to bootstrap afaik everything from SVN.