[fpc-pascal] Daily snapshots?

[Nico Neumann]

Running a GUI application (like Lazarus) from a container isn't that 
complicated (just make sure you trust the container you run (depends on 
your approach) [1]):
- mounting/forwarding your X server socket to the container application
- remote desktop to the container via VNC or xrdp
To simplify this you could use helper tools like x11docker [2].

The X server socket is Linux only but on Windows its even easier:
you only need a recent WSL2 version (thus Windows 10 or newer) which 
comes with WSLg [3]. Then simply install Docker or Podman on your 
Windows host and start your GUI application in the container.

[1]: https://www.baeldung.com/linux/docker-container-gui-applications
[2]: https://github.com/mviereck/x11docker
[3]: https://github.com/microsoft/wslg

Kind regards
Nico

On 12/29/23 13:33, Thomas Kurz via fpc-pascal wrote:
> Thank you. That's what I've been looking for. Maybe the documentation at https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/user/userse76.html could be updated regarding the new URL?
>
> @Nico: Thanks for pointing me to Docker images, but I do not have Docker support on my Windows, unfortunately. I furthermore fear that it might be complicated to use a dockerized Lazarus.
>
> Is there something special I have to consider when combining FPC-trunk with Lazarus 3.0? I'd like to replace the provided FPC 3.2.2 with the latest trunk snapshot. I guess I have to recompile all packages? Is there something else I need to do?
>
> Thank you,
> kind regards,
> Thomas
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Marco van de Voort via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org>
> To: fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2023, 12:37:54
> Subject: [fpc-pascal] Daily snapshots?
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>
> Op 27/12/2023 om 12:38 schreef Thomas Kurz via fpc-pascal:
>
>> as it seems to take longer for the next major release, I'd appreciate if automated snapshots could be provided either daily or weekly.
>> In the documentation, I found a link to ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/snapshot/trunk/ but I cannot login. I tried with user=anynous and password=my-email-address.
>> I don't mind the long time for the next release, but it'd help enormously to have the option to download an up-to-date nightly build :)
> The FTP site has been converted to http because many browsers deprecated
> the FTP protocol, try http://downloads.freepascal.org/fpc/snapshot/fixes/
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