[Lazarus] Lazarus-support site, question about FPC version for Lazarus

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 10:00:17 +0200
Tom Verhoeff <T.Verhoeff at tue.nl> wrote:

> My question: 
> 
> I want to run the latest stable version of Lazarus on Mac OS X (10.5.8
> to be precise).  (I have Xcode installed.)
> 
> First, I installed the latest stable FPC release: version 2.4.0.
> 
> Then, I discover that the Lazarus downloads do not offer the sources
> package for this FPC version.

You must use the daily snapshot or the svn version. I suggest the svn
version.
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Getting_Lazarus#Getting_Lazarus_SVN_development_version
 
> Should I downgrade the compiler to 2.2.4 to use Lazarus? 

Only if you want to use Lazarus 0.9.28 or older.


> If not, how can I install the FPC 2.4.0 sources in the appropriate place?

You can put them where ever you want (e.g. ~/pascal/2.4.0). See here

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Getting_Lazarus#Getting_FPC_SVN_development_version

or here
http://michael-ep3.physik.uni-halle.de/Lazarus/

 
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Mattias