[Lazarus] Building Lazarus for Windows

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Marcos Douglas wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd
> <markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
>> Marcos Douglas wrote:
>>> 2011/7/18 Frank Church <vfclists at gmail.com>:
>>>> I noticed that the Make path was empty, and after comparing to the other
>>>> installations it seems that the ..\fpc\bin\i386-32 did not contain the full
>>>> set of files. There were only 48 files the compared with the 70 or so in the
>>>> others, and make was one of the missing ones. The package recompile was
>>>> using the wrong set of utilities. The problem may have been in the FPC
>>>> compilation. So back to the drawing board on that.
>>> Did you do each step this tutorial?
>>> Try do not change anything. Just follow the tuturial.
>>>
>>> The binaries in ..\fpc\bin\i386-32 are made by Make. If you do not
>>> compile FPC with success some files may not have been generated.
>> I've just completed a build of 2.4.4 on W2K, and after completion
>> found that the binaries directory didn't include make etc. so I added
>> a directory from the source tree to my path.
> 
> The tools (make, etc) are here:
> http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcbuild/branches/fixes_2_4/install/binw32
> 
> See the tutorial:
> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus#STEP_.231:_Create_directories_and_get_the_sources
> 
>> I also noticed that "make install" had failed (silently) to build an fpc.cfg, presumably because it couldn't find gcc.
>>
> 
> If you didn't download the binutils (fpcbuild) you do not have make
> tool (for Windows).
> 
>> I also noticed that the fpc.cfg that the 2.4.2 binary installer created had an explicit reference to 2.4.2, rather than using $fpcversion.
>>
> 
> To create fpc.cfg, use fpcmkcfg tool. But I also do not use .
> See the tutorial:
> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus#STEP_.234:_Create_fpc.cfg_file

No doubt. But Windows is not one of my major platforms, and the build 
from 2.4.4 (as distinct from fixes_2_4) appears to be incomplete when 
compared with the build from 2.4.2.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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