[Lazarus] How would you organize build directories for different versions?

[Mattias Gaertner]

 Frank Church <vfclists at gmail.com> hat am 14. Juli 2011 um 11:24 geschrieben:


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> >  Frank Church <vfclists at gmail.com [mailto:vfclists at gmail.com] > hat am 14.
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> > > > >  > If you are using different Lazarus versions but with same
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> > > > >  > packages, how would you organize separate build directories for the
> > > > >  > different versions, but same source location.
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> > > > >  There are many ways.
> > > > >  For example use one lazarus config directory for each version
> > > > >  combination and make all package output directories read only. Then
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> > > > >  IDE will put the ppu files into the config directory.
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> > > >  Can this be achieved via macros?

 
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> > > >   For instance I have just posted a blog article on FPC/Lazarus
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> > > > http://devblog.brahmancreations.com/content/build-scripts-for-installing-freepascal-and-lazarus-from-source,
> > > > and what I want to do is to have the build_name variable as available to
> > > > the IDE.
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> > > >  e.g if a lazarus build is named lazarus_0920_27001, I would like to use
> > > > a macro based on the package name as well as the lazarus build name, so
> > > > the compiler knows that units for zeoslib for instance go to directory
> > > > /components/lazarus_0920_27001/zeoslib.

 
> > The solution I gave puts the package files in
> > $(PrimaryConfigPath)/lib/$(PkgName)/something, for example
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>  Your solution did not indicate that an every package would have its own
> directory created for it under the PrimaryConfigPath, I thought they would all
> be dumped into a single directory.
 
That would be a Delphi mess. Separate output directories is one of the key
features of the Lazarus package system. 
 
 


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>  Is it avaiable in 0.9.30 fixes? Are some of the new 0.9.31 backported to
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No. 
 
 


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Do ConfPath and PrimaryConfigPath refer to the same thing?
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>  I meant ConfDir and PrimaryConfigPath
 
Yes.  
 


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>  Is it possible to create new user defined macro variables for the IDE?

 Projects and packages can define build macros.


 Mattias
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