[Lazarus] Building Lazarus for Windows

[Marcos Douglas]

2011/7/16 Frank Church <vfclists at gmail.com>
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> I had a go buidling Lazarus with this short script
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>> set oldpath=%PATH%
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>> PATH=M:\Lazarus\Binutils;%PATH%
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>> make clean all PP=M:\FreePascal\251_17989\bin\i386-win32\ppc386.exe
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>> make install INSTALL_PREFIX=M:\LazarusExes\binaries\0931_30714  PP=M:\FreePascal\251_17989\bin\i386-win32\ppc386.exe
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>> PATH=%oldpath%
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> It appears to compile okay except adding packages to the IDE doesn't work. It goes through the steps okay, but nothing get's added to the IDE
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> Is this all I need to compile Lazarus?  Lazarus was installed in c:\lazarus rather than M:\LazarusExes\binaries\0931_30714  where I wanted it.
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> Are there some additional options to the build  I missed out?
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> Is the source for building the windows snapshots available?

See this:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus#Compiling.2Finstalling_FPC_and_Lazarus_from_Sources_of_SVN_.28Win32.29

After you got the lazarus.exe, just use the IDE to compile it self and
your packages installed.

Marcos Douglas