[Lazarus] Problems creating Lazarus installer + readme/batch patch

[Reinier Olislagers]

Hi list,

Trying to create a Lazarus installer on Windows:

1. gdb path problem
the readme says:
> A.5 Lazarus binaries
> Some binaries from a lazarus/binaries svn tree. These binaries (like gdb and the qt interface dll) are distributed with Lazarus, but are not built from source.

I did
svn co http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/binaries/i386-win32/
c:\development\lazbinaries\
and passed that directory to create_intaller as the 3rd argument

create_installer.bat has
:: Path to the lazarus third party binaries checked out of subversion
SET LAZSVNBINDIR=%3
...
SET FPCFULLTARGET=%FPCTARGETCPU%-%FPCTARGETOS%
...

my c:\development\lazbinaries shows this tree:
├───gdb
│   └───bin
└───qt
but this:
:: Path to the directory containing the mingw gdb debugger installation
:: it should have the debugger with the name gdb.exe in its bin subdirectory
SET GDBDIR=%LAZSVNBINDIR%\%FPCFULLTARGET%\gdb

is looking for c:\development\lazbinaries\i386-win32\gdb

What repository should I use instead of the one I specified?

2. inno setup error
I get
C:\Development\lazarus\tools\install\win>"D:\Program Files (x86)\Inno
Setup 5\ISCC.exe" lazarus.iss  1>>installer.log
Error on line 102 in
C:\Development\lazarus\tools\install\win\lazarus.iss: No files found
matching "c:\development\lazbinaries\i386-win32\qt\*.dll"
Compile aborted.

Same problem, really, I'd guess..

Any suggestions?

BTW, patch attached that:
- clarify/update readme (mentioned 2.2 fpc compiler instead of 2.6.0)
- lets you use environment variables for BUILDDIR

Also below are my complete notes on what I did FYI

Thanks,
Reinier

Followed lazarus\tools\install\win\readme.txt; notes below refer to this
and add some details
rem A.1 Inno Setup
rem I used Inno Setup version 5.4.1 (unicode)... dating back to 2010.
Newer versions will probably work, too :)

rem A.3 FPC build sources:
rem Using fixes 2.6 here (the fixes to the latest stable version at this
time)
cd /d c:\development
mkdir c:\development\fpcbuild
svn checkout
http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcbuild/branches/fixes_2_6_0/
c:\development\fpcbuild

rem A.4 Lazarus sources:
rem I've got my Lazarus sources in c:\development\lazarus (downloaded by
fpcup)

rem A.5 Lazarus binaries
rem Hum, where is the svn for that? Let's guess
mkdir c:\development\lazbinaries
svn checkout http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/binaries/i386-win32/
c:\development\lazbinaries\

rem A.6 Latest release fpc compiler
rem Have a 2.6.0 i386 compiler in c:\development\fpcbootstrap\ppc386.exe
(downloaded by fpcup)

rem B adjust C:\Development\lazarus\tools\install\win\create_installer.bat
rem didn't do that, instead set environment variables to my situation
mkdir c:\development\lazarusbuild
rem Set BUILDDIR to c:\development\lazarusbuild
SET BUILDDIR=c:\development\lazarusbuild
rem (though in current batch script this won't be picked up and output
goes to c:\temp\lazarusbuild)
rem so edited the batch from:
rem SET BUILDDIR=c:\temp\lazbuild
rem to:
rem if [%BUILDDIR%]==[] SET BUILDDIR=c:\temp\lazbuild

rem set SVN to my situation:
SET SVN="D:\Program Files\SlikSvn\bin\svn.exe"

rem set ISCC to my situation:
SET ISCC="D:\Program Files (x86)\Inno Setup 5\ISCC.exe"

rem check:
SET

rem C run the script
cd /d C:\Development\lazarus\tools\install\win
create_installer.bat c:\development\fpcbuild c:\development\lazarus
c:\development\lazbinaries c:\development\fpcbootstrap\ppc386.exe

It ran for about 8 minutes on my pc.

Log ends up in
C:\Development\lazarus\tools\install\win\installer.log
-------------- next part --------------
Index: tools/install/win/create_installer.bat
===================================================================
--- tools/install/win/create_installer.bat	(revision 38099)
+++ tools/install/win/create_installer.bat	(working copy)
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 :: Path to build directory.
 :: In this directory an image of the installation will be built.
-SET BUILDDIR=c:\temp\lazbuild
+if [%BUILDDIR%]==[] SET BUILDDIR=c:\temp\lazbuild
 
 :: Path to the svn executable
 if [%SVN%]==[] SET SVN="c:\program files\subversion\bin\svn.exe"
Index: tools/install/win/readme.txt
===================================================================
--- tools/install/win/readme.txt	(revision 38099)
+++ tools/install/win/readme.txt	(working copy)
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 I used Inno Setup, a free installer for Windows programs. You can download it from http://www.jrsoftware.org/, and you need the QuickStart Pack and during installation choose Inno Setup Preprocessor too.
 
 A.2 Subversion
-The build script assumes you have the Subversion installed. You can download it from http://subversion.tigris.org/, you can use the package with setup in name.
+The build script assumes you have the Subversion client installed. You can download it from http://subversion.tigris.org/, you can use the package with setup in name.
 
 A.3 FPC sources
 The build script assumes you have a svn version of the fpcbuild sources. For information about getting the fpc sources from svn see: http://www.freepascal.org/
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 Some binaries from a lazarus/binaries svn tree. These binaries (like gdb and the qt interface dll) are distributed with Lazarus, but are not built from source.
 
 A.6. The latest release of the fpc compiler
-Currently the latest release is fpc 2.2.0. You need just the ppcXXX.exe (ppc386.exe for win32 and ppcx64.exe for win64) to bootstrap compilation of the current fpc version.
+Currently the latest release is fpc 2.6.0. You need just the ppcXXX.exe (ppc386.exe for win32 and ppcx64.exe for win64) to bootstrap compilation of the current fpc version.
 
 B Adjust create_installer.bat to your configuration
 
@@ -38,9 +38,9 @@
 create_installer.bat FPCSVNDIR LAZSVNDIR LAZSVNBINDIR RELEASE_PPC
 
 where:
-FPCSVNDIR: Path to the fpc sources checked out of svn
-LAZSVNDIR: Path to the lazarus sources checked out of svn
-LAZSVNBINDIR: Path to the svn lazarus binaries
-RELEASE_PPC: Path to fpc 2.0.2 compiler
+FPCSVNDIR: Path to the fpc sources checked out of svn (see A.3)
+LAZSVNDIR: Path to the lazarus sources checked out of svn (see A.4)
+LAZSVNBINDIR: Path to the svn lazarus binaries (see A.5)
+RELEASE_PPC: Path to the latest FPC release compiler (see A.6)
 
 Just do it. Wait about 40 minutes (on 2.6 GHz P-IV). A log file named installer.log will be written to the current directory and setup file will be in the Output subdirectory of the current directory.