[Lazarus] How to use two different versions of FPC

[Thierry B.]

Le 10/05/2018 à 14:31, Joost van der Sluis via Lazarus a écrit :
> Op 10-05-18 om 14:05 schreef Giuliano Colla via Lazarus:
>> Il 09/05/2018 12:34, Joost van der Sluis via Lazarus ha scritto:
>>> That's more a hack then a solution
>>
>> I fail to grasp why startlazarus should be a feature, and fpc.sh 
>> should be a hack.
> 
> Startlazarus is also a hack, because on Windows you can not overwrite an 
> executable which is open and the design is kept consistent between OS'es.
> 
> You can perfectly fine use just 'lazarus' on Linux, I never use 
> 'startlazarus'.
> 
>> Having multiple fpc.cfg files, as it may be required by multiple fpc 
>> installations requires invoking the compiler with the appropriate 
>> parameters. A script is just the most comfortable way to achieve this 
>> result.
> 

Here is the script I use since several years, that maintain  2 or 3 
freepascal/lazarus sets and cross compile from linux to win32 (i don't 
need more).
I didn't wrote it, guess I grabbed it from "buildfaq" documentation and 
added modified it thereafter. I have to removed hard coded paths inside 
but since  I had not changes setup for 10 years, it works! And only one 
~/.fpc.cfg

https://pastebin.com/eMsq5JLD

TB