[Lazarus] How to use two different versions of FPC

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Thu, 10 May 2018, Joost van der Sluis via Lazarus wrote:

>
> Oh, you may do so. But it is unnecessary and confusing in the fpc-case. 
> Off-course you can configure Lazarus to use fpc.sh. But what do you do 
> in a terminal? Wouldn't it be easier to just call 'fpc_304' and 
> 'fpc_trunk'? Or /path/to/compiler/versiona/fpc and 
> /path/to/compiler/versionb/fpc?
>
> Believe me when I say that most fpc-developers have really difficult 
> setups, which a lot of different versions of fpc installed. And they do 
> not use scripts like fpcup. They also don't type magically looking 
> command lines. They use just the features already build into the compiler.

Indeed. I have 13 versions installed, dating back to version 2.0.0
No tricks needed.

Michael.