[Lazarus] Portable Version of Lazarus.

[Marcos Douglas]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys
<graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17/06/2011 14:14, Marco van de Voort wrote:
>> That doesn't solve the driveletter changing. If I understood everything
>> correctly, for that you also need to rewrite the fpc.cfg and override
>> lazarus dir using the (0.9.30+) --lazarus-dir parameter
>
> Correct, and a simple application launcher (small utility appl) can do
> this quite nicely. I even think startlaz should be modified to support
> this - it should be quite handy for some developers, and makes startlaz
> a bit more useful.
>
> I have done this before with a small launcher app, but don't use it any
> more...Just looked, I can't find the code for it either, sorry. What I
> did was something like this:  The launcher app picked up the drive
> letter (and path) where lazarus executable lives (they are both in the
> same directory), then sets an environment variable before launching the
> lazarus executable. The fpc.cfg uses the environment variable to
> correctly specify the unit paths. Actually I can't remember if it was an
> environment variables or a small auto generated text file that is
> included via #INCLUDE inside fpc.cfg. Anyway, one of them worked.

I did more simpler:
One script that verify the driver letter and starts Lazarus with --pcp.

Marcos Douglas