The HOWTO is at http://www.pcpros.net/~vbman

That's the home page for Lazarus, and somewhere there you'll find the HOWTO

Shane

>> Didier Gasser-Morlay 07/13 7:53 AM >>>

I connected yesterday to the cvs to download the lazarus and ide code.

I am running on Linux. Whenver I try to do a make, it complains about a FPCDIR & FPCMAKE not set up. FPCDIR I can figure out, but FPCMAKE ???

The thing is I'am new to Linux, FPC, Lazarus, CVS and coming from a long background in Windows/Delphi/Powerbuilder .... may be I'am trying to learn too many things at the same time :-( ? but it's getting frustrating as every time I try to do something I bang my head on a new wall.

So do you have somewhere a paper for the dummies or newbies describing the (proper) setup of FPC and lazarus so that I can install things and start rock and rolling and may be contribute either to Lazarus and FPC. The work your have undertasken is BRILLIANT and I'd love to help as much as I can.

Thanks in advance
I hope I was not too off-topic
Didier

I connected yesterday to the cvs to download the lazarus and ide code.

I am running on Linux. Whenver I try to do a make, it complains about a FPCDIR & FPCMAKE not set up. FPCDIR I can figure out, but FPCMAKE ???

The thing is I'am new to Linux, FPC, Lazarus, CVS and coming from a long background in Windows/Delphi/Powerbuilder .... may be I'am trying to learn too many things at the same time :-( ? but it's getting frustrating as every time I try to do something I bang my head on a new wall.

So do you have somewhere a paper for the dummies or newbies describing the (proper) setup of FPC and lazarus so that I can install things and start rock and rolling and may be contribute either to Lazarus and FPC. The work your have undertasken is BRILLIANT and I'd love to help as much as I can.

Thanks in advance
I hope I was not too off-topic
Didier

It's looking for a variable (like an environment variable) that tells it where the root of your FPC directory is.

Mine is at /use/lib/fpc so I type'd at the prompt
export FPCDIR=/usr/lib/fpc

You can also put this in to your bashlogin profile. Try that and let us know.

Shane

>> Didier Gasser-Morlay 07/13 7:53 AM >>>

I connected yesterday to the cvs to download the lazarus and ide code.

I am running on Linux. Whenver I try to do a make, it complains about a FPCDIR & FPCMAKE not set up. FPCDIR I can figure out, but FPCMAKE ???

The thing is I'am new to Linux, FPC, Lazarus, CVS and coming from a long background in Windows/Delphi/Powerbuilder .... may be I'am trying to learn too many things at the same time :-( ? but it's getting frustrating as every time I try to do something I bang my head on a new wall.

So do you have somewhere a paper for the dummies or newbies describing the (proper) setup of FPC and lazarus so that I can install things and start rock and rolling and may be contribute either to Lazarus and FPC. The work your have undertasken is BRILLIANT and I'd love to help as much as I can.

Thanks in advance
I hope I was not too off-topic
Didier

I connected yesterday to the cvs to download the lazarus and ide code. I am running on Linux. Whenver I try to do a make, it complains about a FPCDIR & FPCMAKE not set up. FPCDIR I can figure out, but FPCMAKE ???

You only need to set the FPCDIR to /usr/lib/fpc/0.99.12/ because there is the makefile.fpc located

Peter

Didier Gasser-Morlay wrote

I connected yesterday to the cvs to download the lazarus and ide code. I am running on Linux. Whenver I try to do a make, it complains about a FPCDIR & FPCMAKE not set up. FPCDIR I can figure out, but FPCMAKE ???

get

ftp://tflily.fys.kuleuven.ac.be/pub/fpc/source/base.zip

and put it's contents (makefile.fpc and Makefile) in the directory above the lazarus directory.

Make sure your source tree is like this:

src/rtl/linux
/...
/compiler
/gtk
/fcl
/lazarus
The Makefile and makefile.fpc should be in the 'src' dir.

The whole idea is to create an IDE so that all these problems are history :-)

There should be a HOWTO floating around on one of the websites, I think. Don't know it's URL though.

Michael.

Thanks to Shhane, Peter and Michael for your advices. I have made progresses.

But now I get the following message when I try to do any type of make

'extraneous text after endif' or 'extraneous text after else'

aaaarrgh! Life is too cruel! (noise of someone opening the window in the background, ready to jump, .... don't worry I live on the groung floor :-))

My CVS stuff is installed at the office on a windows machine and I Zip every thing to work home on my linux machine. So I have a suspicion it is related to the CR/LF combinations. under JOE, every line is ended with two bright M.

Any ideas to clear that ?

Thanks for your time

Didier

try 'unzip -a' under linux, that will convert text file EOLs

Hi!

The ^M's should do no harm to the compiler. If you want to get rid of them inside joe just type "Ctrl-T Z".

I'm wondering a little bit why there are 2 ^M's on each line. I have this effect only in one or two of the files.

bye,

Stefan

I am sure we will narrow that one down in the future. What units? It might be the editor that someone is using.

Cliff

Cliff wrote

I am sure we will narrow that one down in the future. What units? It might be the editor that someone is using.

That and the fact that you unzip DOS files on a linux box; always use the -a option, this will convert CR/LF pairs to LF.

Michael.