[Lazarus] Installing Lazarus on Raspbian Jessie on a Pi2B?

[Bo Berglund]

On Fri, 02 Oct 2015 22:11:48 +0200, Bo Berglund
<bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 02 Oct 2015 18:49:23 +0200, Bo Berglund
><bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Will Lazarus/FPC run properly on a Raspberry Pi2B with Raspbian
>>Jessie?
>>
>Just to complete my inquiry here is a link to a setup guide:
>http://www.tweaking4all.com/hardware/raspberry-pi/install-lazarus-pascal-on-raspberry-pi-2/
>
>But it is specifically said to be working on Raspbian Wheezy. The
>tutorial was written before Raspbian Jessie was out, though, so the
>reservations in the tutorial might be against other distros different
>from Raspbian. But I don't know this so I would like to find out if I
>should downgrade to Wheezy?
>Or if the installation procedure will work also on Jessie...

I will answer myself:
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After a number of hours spent in vain to install in Raspbian Jessie I
reverted to Raspbian Wheezy from May 5, 2015 and with that the
tutorial linked to above works just fine!
So the problems I had was caused by me using the wrong version of
Raspbian!

I now have Lazarus running with FPC 3.1.1 on my Raspberry Pi2B and I
can access the desktop if need be using VNC.

All so far seems to work fine (only made a small Hello world program
to chack that it does work).

The tutorial describes installing averything from sources downloaded
using subversion, so I guess that means I now have the bleeding edge
trunk version of both fpc and lazarus for ARM. :)


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden