Dear Lazarus Developers ,

As of today ( 2009-December-11 ) , Lazarus is not available as an installable package in no one of the following pages :

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-stable/All/ ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/All/ ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable/All/ ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-current/All/ ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-stable/All/

In the pages

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/editors/lazarus/pkg-descr http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/editors/lazarus/pkg-descr http://www.freebsd.org/ports/editors.html

there is no information about how to install it .

In pages
http://www.freshports.org/search.php?query=lazarus&search=go&num=10&stype=name&method=match&deleted=excludedeleted&start=1&casesensitivity=caseinsensitive http://www.freshports.org/editors/lazarus/

the following sentences are written :

To install the port: cd /usr/ports/editors/lazarus/ && make install clean

A package is not available for ports marked as: Forbidden / Broken / Ignore / Restricted

During install by the phrase
cd /usr/ports/editors/lazarus/ && make install clean

the following errors are produced and lazarus is not installed at the end :

/usr/local/lib/fpc/2.2.4/units/i386-freebsd/fcl-db/Package.fpc

Please do not build firebird as ?root? because
this may cause conflicts with SysV semaphores of running services

*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/databases/firebird20-client .

*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/databases/fpc-ibase .

*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/devel/fpc-fcl-db .

*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/editors/lazarus

*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/editors/lazarus

Thank you very much .

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk

I could be able to install the Lazarus by applying the following steps :

(1)
From /var/db/ports/ directory , I removed fpc* and lazarus directories .

(2)
During install I did NOT select

Interbase/Firebird
MySQL
ODBC
Oracle
PostgeSQL
SQLite

(3)

I have selected :

GTK2 widget set ( Do NOT select both GTK2 and QT4 , ONLY one of them )

libpng
X11
GTK2

Lazarus has been compiled successfully and it is running ,

I am using XFCE . There is neither desktop icon nor any menu item to start it .

In a terminal window , by entering

% lazarus

is starting it .

I use Lazarus and FPC on FreeBSD 8/7.2 32 bit heavily (64 bit experimental).
IMHO ATM the best way is to use lazarus svn checkouts (the fixes and trunk versions work very well) with the downloadable release candidate of FPC 2.4 . I would not hold my breath until someone updates the ports ...

Note that you have to use "gmake" (gnu make not the BSD make utility).

Steps: (from memory)
1) Download fpc 2.4rc1, unpack, ./install.sh
2) svn co lazarus (trunk or branch)
3) gmake all
4) ./lazarus

helmut

I added it here:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus#Lazarus_0.9.28_under_BSD

Mattias