[fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

[Hairy Pixels]

 On Nov 29, 2024 at 8:11:11 AM, James Richters via fpc-pascal <
fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:

> I'm intrigued by FPGUI, I'm trying to build FPGUI on Windows 10, and I'm
> having some difficulty.  When I follow the instructions from Install.txt I
> get this:
>

This is very much on topic. FPC has no build system so what do you do when
you encounter a project like this without clear building? I want to try
this too but I have no idea what to do with it. It’s just a bunch of
directories and some text files not about building.

Does it even run on macOS?  I built the one program file I found (fpmake.pas)
but running that crashes. Looks like a cool project but I don’t have time
for any more than this.

If there’s anything that would kill a compiler more it would have to be
“new user can’t build projects”.  Even for me I will simply ignore projects
because I don’t want to spend 30 minutes digging around source code and
asking questions on mail lists.

Regards,
    Ryan Joseph
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