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

[Martin]

On 01/08/2012 07:20, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
> 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

You need to check out  svn co 
http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/binaries

You only got one folder in it. But thu installer can run for 64 bit too, 
so it chooses the path itself


>
> 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 issue. check out the full binaries for all platforms, and let the 
installer deal with it

>
> 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
I will look at it.