Eddie
If this is your first time the best thing to do is go get a snapshot of the lazarus source code off of the home page and unzip it into c:\pp\source and go from there.
This will not solve your CVS problem but we can address that once you get things running. If you wish to get a visual compiler tool that I wrote it is at http://www.codepunk.com/files/lazbuild.zip . It makes it easier to run the compiler from a windows system if you are not used to working with free pascal.
Give that a shot and let me know how it goes.
Cliff
