[Lazarus] Creating config files in primary config path for bootstrap installer

[Reinier Olislagers]

On 4-2-2012 11:51, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:36:23 +0100
> Reinier Olislagers <reinierolislagers at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks to help from the FPC list, my FPCUp FPC/Lazarus SVN
>> installer/updater seems to take a plain vanilla Windows machine and
<snip>
>> - compile lazarus.exe
>>
>> I'd also like Lazarus to compile Lazdatadesktop etc and perhaps some
>> extra packages, and perhaps offline help.
> 
> I started a page about this here:
> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Distributing_Lazarus_-_Installers

Thanks Mattias...

While the approach you mention on the page surely will work (letting the
IDE copy/create missing config files), I'm looking for a totally
unattended way to get Lazarus installed and set up, including some tools.
This means I prefer not to start the IDE to generate the config...

On startup, Lazarus creates config files when they don't exist yet.
Lazbuild doesn't. Would it make sense to patch Lazbuild to match Lazarus
behaviour?

See my other mail for my plans to write a config creator/updater. If
Lazbuild were to create missing config files on the fly, I can scale
that back to only a config updater ;)

Thanks,
Reinier