[Lazarus] Using different FPC versions

[patspiper]

On 10/02/14 20:31, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 20:20:40 +0200
> patspiper <patspiper at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 10/02/14 20:09, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
>>> On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 19:45:44 +0200
>>> patspiper <patspiper at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> [...]
>>> And how can I select the right sub tools like fpcres? I still need to
>>> specify the PATH, don't I?
>> When a fully qualified path for the fpc executable is specified in the
>> IDE options, aren't tools such as fpcres searched for over there?
> Maybe, but fpcres is not there.

In my installation (Linux/manual compilation ie not package installer) 
fpcres is in the same folder as fpc.

>
>   
>> compiler path: <fullpathtofpc>/fpc
>> additional switches: -Xp../lib/fpc/$(FPCVER)
>>
>> The above will allow you to change the path of the fpc executable
>> explicitly, and the ppcxxx path follows implicitly due to the -Xp switch.
> fpcres is not installed under /usr/lib/fpc, but under /usr/bin/.

In case it is in /usr/bin, then it is in the standard PATH, so no 
worries here. But it is not wise to have multiple fpc version with one 
of them in the standard PATH.

Stephano