Hi,

From the following website, it mentions that FreeBSD is supported, but

there is no FreeBSD download available.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/

It shouldn't be a problem building my own, but it is always handy having an official binary release available as a starting point.

I'm setting up a FreeBSD 9.0 (32-bit) development system and would like to know the status of Lazarus on FreeBSD (9.0 preferably). I'll probably default to the GTK2 widgetset, but if Qt4 is more stable/supported I can switch to that too.

Op 29 februari 2012 09:47 heeft Graeme Geldenhuys
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It is supported, but there are no binary releases. FreeBSD user can use the source tar ball.

It shouldn't be a problem building my own, but it is always handy having an official binary release available as a starting point.

There is no official binary release from the lazarus team.

I'm setting up a FreeBSD 9.0 (32-bit) development system and would like to know the status of Lazarus on FreeBSD (9.0 preferably). I'll probably default to the GTK2 widgetset, but if Qt4 is more stable/supported I can switch to that too.

I don't use Lazarus on FreeBSD, (there are other who use Lazarus on FreeBSD), maybe there is even a lazarus version in ports, so you get some help building it from source.

Vincent

Op 29 februari 2012 09:47 heeft Graeme Geldenhuys
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See also:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus#Installing_Lazarus_under_FreeBSD

Vincent

Thanks Vincent.

We use Laz/FPC in our FreeBSD company development team since years, we mainly use trunk/svn versions directly on the developer machines. (different checkouts / ~weekly) and a definitive version on the nightly build server and test suite.

You may get trouble with threaded applications crashing with fpc 2.6, and FreeBSD 9 which comes from a bad/incomplete semaphore definition IIRC.

Pierre fixed that (many thanks) a while ago but AFAIK it's not in the 2.6.1 fixes branch - so you may have to apply a patch manually. -> search for posts from me, pierre, marco regarding FreeBSD and threads. or come back to me if you have troubles ...

helmut

Helmut Hartl wrote

We use Laz/FPC in our FreeBSD company development team since years,

Excellent news, thanks.

You may get trouble with threaded applications crashing with fpc 2.6, and FreeBSD 9 which comes from a bad/incomplete semaphore definition IIRC.

Thanks for the heads-up, I use multi-threading a lot in our work. I'll search for the patch.

Has anybody notified or requested a back-port of that patch to 2.6.1?

Thanks again for all the info. So far the FreeBSD system looks awesome
- I'm absolutely loving ZFS by the way! :)

look:

http://www.pilotlogic.com/sitejoom/index.php/forum/79-bsd-development/1516-lab-codetyphon-on-freebsd-9-0-final

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pkg_add lazarus maybe?

There seem to be binary ports on FTP:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-9-stable/devel/

Helmut Hartl wrote

You may get trouble with threaded applications crashing with fpc 2.6, and FreeBSD 9 which comes from a bad/incomplete semaphore definition IIRC.

Did you debug that yourself? I didn't merge it because the patch doesn't look sane to me.

To be honest no - I asked for hint's why our software does not run on freebsd 9 and provided a gdb stacktrace. Pierre Muller answered he made a patch for the above mentionend, in a specific revision. (svn diff -r 19175:19176 > bsd_sem_patch.diff )