[Lazarus] Lazarus project compile flags

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 12:56:12 -0500
Toan Pham <tpham3783 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 
> When we compile an object-pascal/delphi project, we generally rely on
> Lazarus to do the work.
> Yet, normally Lazarus knows how a project is setup and knows link the
> project with its run-time library.  This is good, but not so good if you
> want to compile the application without lazarus.
> 
> 
> So, as an example, a object pascal project may have the following FPC_FLAGS:
> 
> -MObjFPC -Scghi -O1 -g -gl -vewnhi -Filib/i386-linux -Fl/opt/gnome/lib
> -Fu/usr/lib/lazarus/1.2.4/lcl/units/i386-linux/gtk2
> -Fu/usr/lib/lazarus/1.2.4/lcl/units/i386-linux
> -Fu/usr/lib/lazarus/1.2.4/components/lazutils/lib/i386-linux
> -Fu/usr/lib/lazarus/1.2.4/packager/units/i386-linux -Fu. -FUlib/i386-linux
> -l -dLCL -dLCLgtk2
> 
> These directives are the equivalent of C++/C, compile and link flags.
> Typically we call pkg-config to find out the flags when we compile a c/C++
> application.  Is there a lazarus/fpc utility that is equivalent to
> pkg-config that would allow me to find out these flags at compile/configure
> time?
> 
> I really want to be able to build a project without lazarus, and on
> different machine machines.

You can use lazbuild to build without the IDE. You can build lazbuild
on machines without GUI libraries:
make lazbuild


Mattias