[fpc-pascal] Basic instructions for quick start of free basic setup with subversion.

[Peter E Williams]

Hi Andrew,

No offence intended but I will follow the advice of the latter poster
(Marcos).

:-)

pew

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On 22 January 2011 16:40, Andrew Haines <AndrewD207 at aol.com> wrote:

> On 01/22/11 14:31, Peter Eric Williams wrote:
> > Hi pascal list,
> >
> > Please excuse me asking such a basic question, but I'm new to this list.
> >
> > I require the basic instructions for quick start with subversion for all
> > of the free pascal compiler using subversion.
> >
> > I am using Windows 7 Ultimate and I am new to Free Pascal and Lazarus.
> >
>
> you have the command right there
>
> "svn co http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/trunk fpc"
> "svn co http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/trunk lazarus"
>
> This will create a folder named "fpc" and "lazarus" in the working
> directory of the cmd.exe prompt you have open.
>
> If you are setting fpc up for the first time on this computer, you'll
> need a starting compiler to compile the source you've just gotten.
> Download the correct one from here:
> ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/fpc/dist/2.4.2/bootstrap/
>
> If you choose i386-win32-ppc386.zip then extracting that will give you
> something like ppc386.exe
>
> cd into the fpc folder and type "PP=/path/to/ppc386.exe make all
> install" generally that will install fpc into c:\fpc. It's important to
> use gnu make since others like the MS one or borlands are not compatible
> with the makefiles fpc uses.
>
> Anyway it's much easier to just install a snapshot from here:
> http://www.hu.freepascal.org/lazarus/
>
> Choose the "Lazarus + fpc 2.4.2" "win32" link. This should install a fpc
> 2.4.2 compiler and the latest svn version of lazarus.
>
> Also this link has a lot of relevant information:
> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Getting_Lazarus
>
> Regards,
>
> Andrew
>
> An overview of requirements:
>
> 1 and 2 must be in the PATH. unless you use variables to set them
> (MAKE=c:\path\to\make.exe AS=c:\path\to\as.exe etc.)
>
> 1. Gnu Make
> 2. Possibly win32 binutils (as.exe ld.exe and some more)
> 3. Latest Release of FPC for the starting compiler (currently 2.4.2)
> 4. Fpc Source code, either from a zip file or gotten from subversion
> (svn) (compile with a starting compiler from step 3)
> 5. Lazarus source code (compile with fpc created in step 4)
>
> Further notes:
>
> gnu make gets cranky in windows if you use a path with spaces in it.
> That is why fpc and lazarus are generally installed to c:\fpc or
> c:\lazarus instead of c:\program files\...
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