[fpc-pascal] How to compile program from command line on Linux?

[Bo Berglund]

On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 14:19:56 +0100 (CET), Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal
<fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:

>
>
>On Mon, 16 Dec 2024, Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal wrote:
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>> I have written a command line utility program on Linux using Lazarus as the IDE.
>> This was done a while ago on an Ubuntu Desktop 20.04 machine, which I normally
>> access using VNC when doing Lazarus work there.
>>
>> Now since a few months the TigerVNC server on that machinbe won't start anymore
>> so I cannot reach Lazarus.
>> But I can log on just fine using PuTTY from Windows and do whatever on the
>> command line.
>>
>> So what I want to do is to modify the source, which I can do via SSH.
>> But then I want to build a new version of the program without access to Lazarus
>> there.
>>
>> Can this be done and in that case how?
>> Last build of the application was using fpc ver 3.2.2 and probably Lazarus 2.2.4
>>
>> I have never compiler a FreePascal program from the command line before....
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>If you have a .lpi file (lazarus project file) then you can do simply a
>
>lazbuild yourproject.lpi
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>lazbuild is a command-line tool that comes with lazarus, it can be used to
>compile a project file with the same settings as would be used if you were
>compiling in the IDE.
>
>Michael.

I have now entered the bugfix and tried to use lazbuild, but the command is not
found...

$ lazbuild videosplitcmb.lpi
lazbuild: command not found

Seems like it is not on path..

My project sources are in ~/projects/VideoSplitCombine

And Lazarus and lazbuild itself is in  ~/dev/lazarus/2.2.4/
But not on path...

Should I copy lazbuild to  ~/bin where fpc also is located?
Or invoke it like this:

~/dev/lazarus/2.2.4/lazbuild videosplitcmb.lpi

TIA

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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden