[fpc-pascal] Re: Installing FPC 2.5.1 in Mac OS X

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Thu Jan 5 13:05:43 CET 2012


In our previous episode, shiruba2012 said:
> I had the same issue when specifying a specific compiler in Lazarus.  I
> changed the directory back to 
> 
> /usr/local/bin/ppc386
> 
> and it worked fine.  I almost created another SymLink (as you did), and
> since that obviously works as well, the issue seems to be that Lazarus looks
> for fpcres in the same directory as the compiler, without making that clear.
> 
> Since this makes the compiler selection option useless (unless you want to
> make a lot of SymLinks by hand), there should probably be a separate option
> for the FPCRes location, no?

Well, aside from installing different compilers in different prefixes (what
I usually do), yes.

I would file a bug, and see how Laz devels see it.



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