Anders Ellensh�j Andersen wrote

Auch. So there is no way to remove everything automatically? Once it's in, it's in for good. Excuse me but thats scary.

What do you mean? Exactly what is scary????

If you mean being able to install and uninstall then you can do that if you use the FPC RPM files that I pointed to.

As for Lazarus just untar it where you want it. Then if you want to remove it just delete the directory. It doesn't install anything anyplace but in the directory that you untar it to.

Or am I not understanding your concern?

The web site should explain what you need. The best way to get Lazarus if you want to work on it is by using CVS. Again the web site explains how to do this.

As to getting tarballs you can just get the following:

Required version of the compiler

ftp://ftp.us.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/fpc-1.0.7-laz.20020921.i386.rpm

and required compiler source

ftp://ftp.us.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/fpc-1.0.7-laz.20020921.src.rpm

Nightly tarball of the Lazarus source and build

ftp://ftp.us.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/lazaruslinux.tar.gz

If you want to use tarballs then you must download all of the tarballs of the 20020921 build. A pain.

As an alternative you might want to get FPC out of CVS as well. You can find out about how to do that on the freepascal web site.

If you plan on being a contributor I would recommend getting your source out of CVS.

Welcome aboard. :-)

Hei Anders.

Don`t know what platform you want to work on, but if Linux is your fetish just read a little here:

http://tony.maro.net/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=800&page_id=2&PHPSESSID=02ba1938695416b1f4cd63e6707cc78a (or if this address messes up in mail just go to http://tony.maro.net/ and find the "Installing Lazarus"-link)

and that should get you running... when it comes to Window$ I`m completly blank....but that HOWTO from Tony Maro did the trick for me..

Best Regards:
just another Anders. (seems like the pascal-world are growing full of us :-) AJ

I know this is too much to ask of, but I'm gonna do it anyway.

I have done a lot of Delphi programming at my former workplace. I'd like to try Lazarus and see if I can help. However I can't figure out what packages I need. There seem to be like 50+ tarballs and other files in the download directory. I am completely lost.

Is there anyway you could work on making it easier to get startet on working with lazarus?

Anders

Anders Jensen wrote

Don`t know what platform you want to work on, but if Linux is your fetish just read a little here:

Debian GNU/Linux definately is that.

http://tony.maro.net/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=800&page_id=2&PHPSESSID=02ba 1938695416b1f4cd63e6707cc78a (or if this address messes up in mail just go to http://tony.maro.net/ and find the "Installing Lazarus"-link)

Auch. So there is no way to remove everything automatically? Once it's in, it's in for good. Excuse me but thats scary.

Anders

I don't like to put stuff into my system that I can not delete in a simple way.

If you mean being able to install and uninstall then you can do that if you use the FPC RPM files that I pointed to.

I am not sure that works on Debian.

As for Lazarus just untar it where you want it. Then if you want to remove it just delete the directory. It doesn't install anything anyplace but in the directory that you untar it to.

Can I make a directory in my home directory that has both lazarus and fpc?

Kind Regards

Anders E. Andersen

I believe you can, but your FPC config will probably need to be somewhat custom since you won't install it as root... But I defer to someone else on that.

Regarding Lazarus that's exactly how I have it installed and configured
- as a sub from my home directory.

-Tony

I simply use

make install INSTALL_PREFIX=~ PP=~/path/to/ppc386_106

in the fpc/ dir of the FPC source tree. (the ppc386_106 is the binary compiler 1.0.6, as ppc386 in the 1.0.6 archive)

and then put

-Fu/home/marcov/lib/fpc/$VERSIONS/units/$TARGET/*

as only -Fu line in my ~/.fpc.cfg (leave the other contents, specially the -v parameter, it provides nice errormsgs)

But I have a ~/bin (in the *nix PATH) already, which is where the compiler (ppc386) is installed.

This is all on a clean system:-)

Work on 1.0.8 is being done, but we are still ironing out bugs, and bringing new platforms a bit up to date.

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From: Tony Maro
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I think did this on my SuSE-box.. can`t remember that I had to change fpc.cfg... but I didn`t use the fpc-rpm, if I remember correct I used some zip-file... Think I did find the link to it somewhere on the Lazarus-homepage...

don`t flame me if I`m wrong guys.. cause it`s possible that I remember wrong, it`s just so many lines ago, and I`ve had to switch my tiny brain onto major boring stuff since then...

AJ

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **can anyone please call my GF and tell her that it`s okay to call our forst-born kid Lazarus? and that ofcourse kids can get their own computer before they can walk...............................** -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Is there any chance fpc 1.0.7 will be released? As the release version of fpc is in debian already, an updated fpc would make it a great deal easier for debian users to try lazarus.

Anders