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

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:01:47 +0100
Reinier Olislagers <reinierolislagers at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 3-2-2012 14:36, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
> > Hi list,
> > 
> > Thanks to help from the FPC list, my FPCUp FPC/Lazarus SVN
> > installer/updater seems to take a plain vanilla Windows machine and
> <bla>
> > I'd also like Lazarus to compile Lazdatadesktop etc and perhaps some
> > extra packages, and perhaps offline help.
> > 
> > For that to happen, I will need valid config files. I'm now creating an
> > empty directory for use as primary-config-path.
> > 
> > How can I best fill it with config files?
> 
> Short term solution - is a kludge so not going to do it, I think:
> 1. call lazarus.exe --primary-config-path=bla which should create config
> files. Then kill it.
> 2. Go through the xml files in the primary config path and replace
> compiler path, binutils path
> 
> Longer term solution:
> Use TEnvironmentOptions:
> CreateConfig //to create default config
> set properties:
> LazarusDirectory property
> CompilerFileName
> FPCSourceDirectory
> MakeFilename
> DebuggerFilename
> Save to save config
> 
> Write a new command line tool, e.g.:
> UpdateConfig --primary-config-path=c:\windows\temp\testconfig
> --fpc=c:\development\fpc\bin\i386-win32\fpc.exe
> --fpcsourcedirectory=c:\development\fpc
> --make=c:\development\fpcbootrap\make.exe
> --debugger=c:\development\fpcbootstrap\gdb.exe
> --lazarusdirectory=c:\development\lazarus
> 
> ... which will create or update any config in primary-config-path
> 
> Am I going in the right direction? Can I just use TEnvironmentOptions or
> do I need more units?

You do not need TEnvironmentOptions. You only need a TXMLConfig from
unit laz2_xmlcfg.


Mattias