[Lazarus] multiple versions and portable lazarus

[Marcos Douglas]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Roberto Padovani <padovani.r at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2011/5/31 Marcos Douglas <md at delfire.net>:
> > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Roberto Padovani <padovani.r at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> [snip]
> >>
> >> Generally speaking, why do I have to _install_ (in the win32 sense)
> >> lazarus? Isn't it possible to have a portable installation?
> >> If I compile it from scratch, set a few environment options and
> >> register some extension, should it work?
> >> The same is true for FPC, can it be portable?
> >
> > Do you not need to install.
> > I use the FPC/Lazarus in an external HD without problems, but you need
> > to get FPC and Lazarus from SVN (or Git, if you prefer).
> > I made this tutorial a few months ago, see:
> > http://wiki.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus#Compiling.2Finstalling_FPC_and_Lazarus_from_Sources_of_SVN_.28Win32.29
> >
> > ...that is the tutorial I used to "install" FPC/Lazarus in 3 machines
> > (home, work and external HD to use in any machine).
> >
>
> Good new, I only have to work around the fact that I cannot access svn
> from work.
>
> thanks!

Do you have a pendriver? Get the sources in your home and copy to the pendriver.
I forgot to tell about parameters of Marco van de Voort said: -pcp and
--lazarus-dir. To use Lazarus in a pendriver, you need to study this
parameters, ok?

Marcos Douglas