This Document

http://www.freepascal.org/~michael/articles/lazmint/lazmint.pdf

Wants to show that "This is not as scary or difficult as it may seem".

Unfortunately the step

wget $BASEURL/x84_64-linux/fpc-3.0.0.x64_64-linux.tar

does not work (file not found).

By

wget $BASEURL/i386-linux/fpc-3.0.0.i386-linux.tar

it is possible to install the 32 Bit version of fpc 3.0.0.

Anyway: is 3.0.0. the decent version to use right now ?

-Michael

Seemingly "make bigide" on a 64 Bit Mint does not work this simply with the 32 bit fpc:

/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/crtbegin.o when searching for /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/crtbegin.o
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/crtbegin.o /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldl
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
Error: Error while linking

-Michael

So I fetched the current fpc from svn.

Trying to make same I get a similar error:

Linking fpmake
fpmake.pp(47,1) Warning: "crti.o" not found, this will probably cause a linking failure
fpmake.pp(47,1) Warning: "crtn.o" not found, this will probably cause a linking failure
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/crtbegin.o when searching for /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/crtbegin.o
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/crtbegin.o /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpthread
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldl
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc
fpmake.pp(47,1) Error: Error while linking

Michael Schnell wrote

wget $BASEURL/x84_64-linux/fpc-3.0.0.x64_64-linux.tar

^^^
That should probably read 'x86_64', not 'x64_64'.

Regards,
Graeme

The pdf has two typos. It should be
wget $BASEURL/x86_64-linux/fpc-3.0.0.x86_64-linux.tar

Anyway: is 3.0.0. the decent version to use right now ?

Yes.

Mattias

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote

That should probably read 'x86_64', not 'x64_64'.

Works !

I could successfully compile and run as well fpc 3.1.1 (from svn) as Lazarus.

Thanks,
-Michael (aka docu beta tester)