<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hello Michael,</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 25, 2026 at 3:49 AM Michael Van Canneyt <<a href="mailto:michael@freepascal.org">michael@freepascal.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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On Sat, 24 Jan 2026, Aruna Hewapathirane via fpc-devel wrote:<br>
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> Hello,<br>
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> I’m fairly new to working with the Free Pascal IDE sources and I’d like to<br>
> build *fp* by itself for learning and testing purposes.<br>
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> I’m using *Linux (Debian)*, and while looking through the installed FPC<br>
> source tree I found this file:<br>
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> /usr/share/fpcsrc/3.2.2/packages/ide/fp.pas<br>
><br>
> Is this the correct main source file for the *fp text-mode IDE*, or am I<br>
> looking in the wrong place?<br>
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That is the correct main source file.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thank you.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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> As a beginner, I’m mainly trying to understand:<br>
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> -<br>
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> where the fp text-mode IDE “starts”,<br>
> -<br>
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It uses Free Vision, and runs a message loop, which is 'hidden' in IDEApp.Run;<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I found a <a href="https://github.com/sechshelme/Lazarus-FreeVision-Tutorial">Freevison Tutorial </a>but it is all in German. What would be the most painless way to translate this to English please?</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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> how it is normally built, and<br>
> -<br>
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> whether there is a simple or *recommended way to build fp* on its own<br>
> for experimentation and learning.<br>
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It's not really standalone, because the IDE contains the compiler. <br>
Your best bet is still simply to use 'make all' in the toplevel or packages<br>
directory of the sources.<br>
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Michael.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thank you again Michael. I will try building from toplevel using 'make all'. </div></div></div>