The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.2.2.

This release was built with fpc 2.6.4. The previous release 1.2 was built with 2.6.2.

Here is the list of changes for Lazarus and Free Pascal: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.2_fixes_branch#Fixes_for_1.2.2_.28Merged.29 http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.6.4

On Windows the installer now allows 2 independent installations. http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Multiple_Lazarus#Installation_of_multiple_Lazarus

The release is available for download on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/

Choose your CPU, OS, distro and then the "Lazarus 1.2.2" directory. Windows x64 users: please use the 32 bit installer if possible. See http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Windows_Programming_Tips#FPC_2.6.x.2FLazarus_warning_.28Missing_support_for_SEH.29 for more details.

Minimum requirements:
Windows: 98
FreeBSD/Linux: gtk 2.8 or qt4.5, 32 or 64bit
Mac OS X: 10.5 for Intel cpus, 10.4 for PowerPC, LCL only 32bit, non LCL apps can be 64bit

The svn tag is
http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/tags/lazarus_1_2_2

For people who are blocked by SF, the Lazarus releases from SourceForge are mirrored at:
ftp://freepascal.dfmk.hu/pub/lazarus/releases/
and later at (after some time for synchronization) http://michael-ep3.physik.uni-halle.de/Lazarus/releases/ and
http://mirrors.iwi.me/lazarus/

Mattias

2014-04-23 11:34 GMT-03:00 Mattias Gaertner :

Very nice! \o/

But in SourceForge still in "lazarus-1.2.0-fpc-2.6.2-win32.exe".

When trying to install lazarus 1.2.2 on Linux Fedora 14:

fpc-2.6.4-1.x86_64.rpm does not install.

Shows error: "lazarus-1.2.0-0.x86_64 requires fpc = 2.6.2-130317"

I think the dependency tree inside the fpc and fpc-src rpms are crossed. They somehow need fpc 2.6.2?

Cheers,

md

[...] But in SourceForge still in "lazarus-1.2.0-fpc-2.6.2-win32.exe".

It took some time, before sf shows the new default.

Mattias

Try installing all three, fpc, fpc-src and lazarus with one command or uninstall the old three before installing the new three.

I think the dependency tree inside the fpc and fpc-src rpms are crossed. They somehow need fpc 2.6.2?

Here they install without error.

Mattias

Mattias Gaertner wrote

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.2.2.

Windows (64 bit) download points to 32 bit download.

See the announcement:

Windows x64 users: please use the 32 bit installer if possible. See http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Windows_Programming_Tips#FPC_2.6.x.2FLazarus_warning_.28Missing_support_for_SEH.29 for more details.

Mattias

????? This does not say, that 64 bit version is not available (it actually is). It just suggests to avoid using it, unless necessary. It says nowhere, that 64 bit download links are invalid on purpose.

Ah, sorry. I misunderstood.

Maybe Martin or Juha know.

Mattias

Mattias:

Just wanted to say "Thank you" for all of your contributions to this project.

md

The SEH issue means that the 64 bit release can not be used, except for very special cases. Therefore the 32 bit IDE is default for 32 and 64 bit Windows. The links go to the default download..

So the links are intentionally like this.

It is not about the default download. When you manually select "Windows 64bit" you get the 32bit too.

Mattias

Mattias Gaertner wrote

It is not about the default download. When you manually select "Windows 64bit" you get the 32bit too.

Ah I see.

Need to see how much work it takes to fix the website, so it can deliver different urls for auto detect and manual selection.

Also that depends on how you read the selectino drop down.

It does not actually say: "choose the 64bit IDE"
It says "For ..." = "for Windows 64"

And the download for win 64 is the 32 bit IDE.

IMHO that should be kept. Otherwise people will download a 64 bit IDE. And they have an IDE that crashes when they try to save their work.

We may be able to add something on the separate download page

....

And the download for win 64 is the 32 bit IDE.

Please note that (and that is on the wiki ), even if you want to compile 64 bit applications), it is strongly recommended that you use the 32 bit IDE (+ add on).

Using the 64 bit IDE means you may loose your code, because the IDE can crash when you try to save it.

Yes. I'd therefore suggest that if people really want to have a 64 bit IDE, they should compile it themselves... (in other words, leave the current situation as is as it is much less likely to cause problems for newbies)

My feelings, too, except that people don't even need to compile themselves. They can still go to SourceForge page and download from there. BTW, that was the only way to download just a while ago. Only recently we got the nice download button on the new webpage. It should provide as fail safe choice as possible.

I plan to use the button tomorrow when updating Lazarus to my work machine. It gives me nice feeling when things work smoothly. Now updating Lazarus is very smooth thanks to the button and the high quality installer.

Juha

Just a minor issue,but when installing 1.2.2 over an existing 1.2.0 (32bit on Windows 8.1 64bit), it did not properly set the path to the "make" file. Had to go on the first startup and browse to the binary in the fpc compiler bin folder, all other paths were set right...

Ralf

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I noticed something weird in 1.2.2. When finishing debugging (by pressing Stop icon) codeeditor can't restore position cursor. I need to switch tab and back again and then it is ok. Kubuntu 14.04 64bit

Krzysztof wrote

I noticed something weird in 1.2.2. When finishing debugging (by pressing Stop icon) codeeditor can't restore position cursor. I need to switch tab and back again and then it is ok. Kubuntu 14.04 64bit

You mean it does not show the flashing (blinking) vertical bar, indicating where you will type?

What happens, if you press a key? will it insert the key into the text? (that is, does the window have forus)?

I noticed something weird in 1.2.2. When finishing debugging (by pressing Stop icon) codeeditor can't restore position cursor. I need to switch tab and back again and then it is ok. Kubuntu 14.04 64bit

What do you mean with "can't restore position cursor"?

Mattias

Cursor is not blinking. I don't know where it is

2014-04-25 15:10 GMT+02:00 Mattias Gaertner :

Krzysztof wrote

Cursor is not blinking. I don't know where it is

Does the window have focus, can you type?

Because when I press stop, then the window with the stop button (the main IDE bar) is focused. ANd yes in that case the caret (text cursor) is no blinking.

If you have the editor focused, while debugging, and press ctrl-F2 (which is stop), then the editor keeps being focused.

The IDE has an option (Menu Tools > Option > EDitor) "Persistent Caret", using this, the caret will be visible, after you clicked stop. But the Editor still will not have Focus, and you still will not be able to type until you focus it.

I cross posted this to the lazarus list, you may want to reply there, since this is not an fpc issue.

Yes, I can type but carret is invisible. After checking "Persistent Caret" everything is working fine, thanks!

2014-04-25 18:45 GMT+02:00 Martin Frb :