[Lazarus] Theoretical question about future of Lazarus

[Salvatore Coppola]

An easy way to got apk for Android as Sam Herzog said "able to generate a
valid android package (.apk) by just pressing F9"

2015-10-13 19:50 GMT+02:00 Travis Ayres <trayres at gmail.com>:

> I hope we see more books detailing Lazarus and Freepascal, rather than
> more advanced features. New features are great but really getting the word
> out is necessary - I've had people laugh when I say I program in object
> Pascal because I like it better than C++, and others say it's a dead
> language. It's really a shame because Lazarus\fpc are so good!
> On Oct 13, 2015 10:47 AM, <wkitty42 at windstream.net> wrote:
>
>> On 10/13/2015 09:51 AM, Juha Manninen wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 3:43 PM,  <wkitty42 at windstream.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> what do you call "really fast"??
>>>>
>>>
>>> The fastest PC available today.
>>>
>>> i might be able to try this on my 8-core 4Ghz box...
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes please!
>>>
>>
>> let me see what i can do...
>>
>> [time passes]
>>
>> i get as far as this...
>>
>> /bin/rm -f fpcmade.x86_64-linux Package.fpc ./ppas.sh script.res link.res
>> /bin/rm -f *.s *_ppas.sh
>> make[1]: Leaving directory
>> `/home/wkitty42/development/lazarus/components/chmhelp/lhelp'
>> make -C packager/registration
>> make[1]: Entering directory
>> `/home/wkitty42/development/lazarus/packager/registration'
>> /bin/rm -f ../units/x86_64-linux/fcllaz.ppu
>> /home/wkitty42/development/fpc/bin/x86_64-linux/ppcx64 -MObjFPC -Scghi
>> -O1 -g -gl -l -vewnhibq -Fu. -FE. -FU../units/x86_64-linux -Cg -dx86_64
>> fcllaz.pas
>> Free Pascal Compiler version 3.1.1 [2015/06/13] for x86_64
>> Copyright (c) 1993-2015 by Florian Klaempfl and others
>> (1002) Target OS: Linux for x86-64
>> (3104) Compiling fcllaz.pas
>> Fatal: (10022) Can't find unit system used by fcllaz
>> Fatal: (1018) Compilation aborted
>> make[1]: *** [fcllaz.ppu] Error 1
>> make[1]: Leaving directory
>> `/home/wkitty42/development/lazarus/packager/registration'
>> make: *** [registration] Error 2
>>
>> real    0m4.228s
>> user    0m0.819s
>> sys     0m1.352s
>>
>>
>> i don't know why... everything is in a tree under ~/development where
>> fpcup placed it... i've never installed fpc or lazarus using anything other
>> than fpcup and bootstrapping it from the raw... there is
>> ~/development/fcpbootstrap/x86_64-linux-ppcx64 which turns out to be fpc
>> 2.6.2 but i don't know how to tell your "time make clean bigide" to use it
>> :(
>>
>> the only other thing is that i don't use bigide at this time...
>>>> it was too confusing for me while trying to learn the interface...
>>>>
>>>
>>> Bigide is used for Lazarus release versions. Why is it confusing?
>>>
>>
>> way too many options to drag and drop on a form... i do not come from
>> delphi or any other gui coding environment so i don't know anything about
>> them... trying to find one being looked for was like hunting a needle in a
>> haystack...
>>
>> the last time i used any sort of RAD it was for relatively small programs
>> in Foxbase or dBase III and IV... there was a RAD template system thing
>> that we used... once we got the forms laid out the way we wanted and
>> generated the basic code to access, edit and delete the data, we then
>> rewrote the majority of the code so much adding to and refining the
>> existing code that we could not use the template thing any more to adjust
>> the forms... from then on, it was like we had never used a RAD at all...
>>
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