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Title: Installing Lazarus on FreeBSD

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1	+	## Installing Lazarus on FreeBSD
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3	+	The following applies to FreeBSD 12.x, 13.x, 14.x and 15-CURRENT only. Earlier FreeBSD versions are end-of-life and not supported.
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5	+	### via the Ports tree
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7	+	Currently, two versions of Lazarus are available in the FreeBSD ports tree v3.0.0 (release version) and v3.1.0 (development version). The latest version of the Free Pascal Compiler in the ports tree is v3.2.2 and v3.3.1 (development version). You can install the GTK2 version, QT5 version or QT6 version of Lazarus as follows:
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9	+	``` bash
10	+	# cd /usr/ports/editors/lazarus && make install clean
11	+	```
12	+
13	+	or
14	+
15	+	``` bash
16	+	# cd /usr/ports/editors/lazarus-qt5 && make install clean
17	+	```
18	+
19	+	or
20	+
21	+	``` bash
22	+	# cd /usr/ports/editors/lazarus-qt6 && make install clean
23	+	```
24	+
25	+	If you want use development (aka trunk) version of Lazarus do the following:
26	+
27	+	``` bash
28	+	# cd /usr/ports/editors/lazarus-devel && make install clean
29	+	```
30	+
31	+	or
32	+
33	+	``` bash
34	+	# cd /usr/ports/editors/lazarus-qt5-devel && make install clean
35	+	```
36	+
37	+	or
38	+
39	+	``` bash
40	+	# cd /usr/ports/editors/lazarus-qt6-devel && make install clean
41	+	```
42	+
43	+	Note: Installing Lazarus will also install the Free Pascal Compiler and its source files.
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45	+	### via the pkg system
46	+
47	+	``` bash
48	+	# pkg install editors/lazarus
49	+	```
50	+
51	+	or
52	+
53	+	``` bash
54	+	# pkg install editors/lazarus-qt5
55	+	```
56	+
57	+	or
58	+
59	+	``` bash
60	+	# pkg install editors/lazarus-qt6
61	+	```
62	+
63	+	or
64	+
65	+	``` bash
66	+	# pkg install editors/lazarus-devel
67	+	```
68	+
69	+	or
70	+
71	+	``` bash
72	+	# pkg install editors/lazarus-qt5-devel
73	+	```
74	+
75	+	or
76	+
77	+	``` bash
78	+	# pkg install editors/lazarus-qt6-devel
79	+	```
80	+
81	+	Lazarus should install the Free Pascal Compiler source files. If you don't have them, you can add them:
82	+
83	+	``` bash
84	+	# pkg install lang/fpc-source
85	+	```
86	+
87	+	If you start Lazarus IDE at this point by typing lazarus you will get a dialog which needs you to input the directory in which the Free Pascal source files are located. Set it to /usr/local/share/fpc-source-3.2.2
88	+
89	+	### via the Lazarus repository
90	+
91	+	This option will often be used if you want to follow Lazarus trunk, a fixes branch, or some other release (eg compiling from a source tarball).
92	+
93	+	- Use the SubVersion or Git repositories to checkout a copy of the source code you want, or unpack a downloaded source archive into a suitable location. Recent versions of FreeBSD include the svn command as svnlite, so you do not need to install full Subversion package to checkout a copy of the source code.
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95	+	- The readme.txt file in Lazarus directory mentions make clean all. This only works if you are using Linux. Under FreeBSD you need to replace make with gmake and ensure that you have also installed the GNU gmake from ports.
96	+
97	+	``` bash
98	+	cd /path/to/lazarus_source
99	+	gmake distclean all bigide
100	+	```
101	+
102	+	### What does the bigide make argument do?
103	+
104	+	## Installation troubleshooting
105	+
106	+	Troubleshooting details that should (hopefully) be applicable across platforms may be found in the article [[Installation Troubleshooting]].
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108	+	Some additional notes for FreeBSD installations can be found in the articles [[FreeBSD]] and [[Installing the Free Pascal Compiler]].
109	+
110	+	## Multiple Lazarus installs
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112	+	Please see [[Multiple Lazarus]] for details on having more than one Lazarus version installed on one system. We cover issues that can arise due to multiple Lazarus installs here, because they can also happen when installing over a previous version.
113	+
114	+	## Lazarus FAQ
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116	+	The Lazarus FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions - page is available [[Lazarus Faq\|here]].
117	+
118	+	## Installing old versions
119	+
120	+	See [[Installation hints for old versions]]
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122	+	---
123	+	From the Free Pascal wiki, page "Installing Lazarus on FreeBSD", as it stood on 2024-01-06 after a change by Acm, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's [[Licensing]] page. If you have concerns about this material, [message the admin](/wiki-contact).
124	+	Category: FPC
125	+	Category: FreeBSD
126	+	Category: Install
127	+	Category: Lazarus

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