[fpc-pascal] Help: New install problems

[Jonas Maebe]

Anthony Walter wrote on Mon, 02 Apr 2012:

> I have installed fpc from sources before but it's been a while and I've
> forgotten how to get it done, or perhaps something has changed and  need
> some help.
>
> When i am trying to do is install and run the latest version of fpc from my
> home folder. Here is what I did:
>
> # first I got a working version of fpc installed using
> sudo apt-get install fpc
>
> # then i made a ~/fpc and got a copy fpc sources there
> svn co http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/trunk lazarus

Those are not the FPC sources, but the Lazarus sources. The fpc  
sources are in http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/trunk

> # finally did a make all follow by make install to my home folder
> make all
> make install
> make install INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/myusername

This first installs everything in the root (make install), and then  
again in your home directory (make install INSTALL_PREFIX=...). That  
may not be what you want.

> Great success! Now I have a ~/bin (/home/myusername/bin) folder with all
> the fpc binaries as well as ~/share and ~/lib. Then
> put /home/myusername/bin in my path.

If you did in fact compile and install FPC rather than Lazarus (it's  
better to copy/paste the actually executed commands rather than typing  
everything again from memory): the "fpc" binary looks for a compiler  
binary in its own directory, and if it doesn't find it there then it  
will look for it in the PATH.

However, "make install" does not create/overwrite any symbolic links  
to the actual compiler binaries in the $INSTALL_PREFIX/bin, so as not  
to change the default compiler version that has potentially already  
been installed in that same prefix. This means that the new fpc will  
still find the old (symlink to the) compiler binary in /usr/bin.

If you do want to change the default compiler, also execute the  
following command:
make FPC=`pwd`/compiler/ppc386 -C compiler installsymlink  
INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/myusername

(replace ppc386 with ppcx64 if you built an x86-64 compiler)


Jonas

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