[Lazarus] Multiple FPC versions for Lazarus 0.9.28.2?

[Bo Berglund]

On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 11:52:42 +0100, Sven Barth
<pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:

>On 14.11.2010 08:30, Bo Berglund wrote:
>> CD C:\Programs\lazarus
>> C:\Programs\lazarus\fpc\2.4.2\bin\i386-win32\make.exe clean all
>>

>
>The process you did is the correct one, but it might be that 0.9.28.2 
>can not be compiled by the 2.4.x series. I believe that I've read that 
>you need at least 0.9.28.3 for this...

OK, I bit the bullet and let SVN retrieve the trunk version...

>I would nevertheless suggest to you to use a development version 
>(0.9.29), because many bugs were fixed in the meantime. Of course you 
>should install this in a different directory than your 0.9.28.2. ^^
>Before you start such a snapshot you should also modify the shortcut to 
>that Lazarus version, so that it uses a different configuration path 
>(thus the configuration for your 0.9.28.2 won't be overwritten if you 
>want to go back).
>
>E.g.
>
>"Shortcut target"
>C:\Programs\lazarus-0.9.29\lazarus.exe --pcp=C:\Config\lazarus-0.9.29
>
>The default configpath for Lazarus is %APPDATA%\lazarus\.
>
>E.g.
>On Windows XP:
>C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\AppData\lazarus\
>
>On Windows Vista/7:
>C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\lazarus\
>

Thanks, I will do that when I get home. :-)

-- 

Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden