[Lazarus] Using different FPC versions

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:44:50 +0100 (CET)
Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:

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> I use a full path to ppcx64-x.y.z

How did you create ppcx64-x.y.z?
AFAIK none of the installers create this.

 
> I do this, because lazarus does not - out of the box - support the passing of the version to FPC as in:
> 
> fpc -V2.6.4

You can pass it in the custom compiler options, but it is currently
not parsed by the IDE, so it uses the default version for codetools.

 
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> Maybe the lazarus devels are not aware of this -V option. 
> It's not widely used or propagated, after all.

You are the first I know who uses it. :)

Mattias