[Lazarus] Separation of source code and compiled units

Giuliano Colla giuliano.colla at fastwebnet.it
Sat Nov 2 12:51:44 CET 2019


Il 02/11/2019 11:26, Karl-Michael Schindler via lazarus ha scritto:

> I am working on the package description for lazarus for MacPorts and are struggling with the following: $PREFIX/share/lazarus contains the source code as well as the compiled units. In case lazarus is recompiled the directory $PREFIX/share/lazarus needs to be writable by all users. At least this is as far as I got. Is there a way to keep the source files readonly and place the compiled files somewhere separate? How has this been dealt with for linux?

As Sven pointed, in Linux when the $PREFIX/lazarus directory is not 
writable, the compiled files and the executable are put into the user's 
home directory under ~/.lazarus (which is also the default path for user 
configuration files). Executable in ~/.lazarus/bin, compiled units in 
~/.lazarus/lib and ~/.lazarus/units.
That's the default behaviour, but you may also select a different target 
directory for your recompiled copy from Tools->Configure "Build 
Lazarus"->Target directory.

Moreover, startlazarus will check if the lazarus copy in $PREFIX/lazarus 
is newer than your local recompiled lazarus, which happens if you update 
to a new version. In that case it will ask you which one you want to start.

If you make $PREFIX/lazarus writable, you will always have only one copy 
of Lazarus. If you don't, you will have two copies: the original one, 
and your recompiled one.

Giuliano

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