Creating Lazarus, and configuring fpc

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iplayfast · Post by **iplayfast** » Tue May 03, 2005 4:56 am

Noticed Lazarus in the portage directory the other day and decided to install it. (Yup, no life, lookin through the portage tree...)

It has a bunch of dependencies but the only major one is fpc. (Free Pascal Compiler). At this point doing an emerge of fpc will install version 1.9.8 (which I've heard is supposed to be the final release candidate for version2) but will fail to do the configuration. So I'm here to help you finish the job

If you looked around in /usr/lib/fpc/1.9.8 you will see a script called samplecfg. It's looking for the fpc location and the etc location.

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su -
cd /usr/lib/fpc/1.9.8
./samplecfg /usr/lib/fpc/1.9.8 /etc

Check over the fpc.cfg now located in the /etc directory and modify paths and flags to suit your tastes.

You are now ready to emerge Lazarus. You couldn't do this before because it needs a properly configured pascal compiler to compile it.

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emerge lazarus

Last step.

The link for Lazarus needs to be created in order to be able to start it.

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ln -s /usr/share/lazarus/startlazarus /usr/bin/lazarus

you can now type lazarus on the command line and it will start up. It will need some configuration adjustments, and I'll edit this in the future (with any help from others). On the best way to configure.

I suspect that these ebuilds will change since they don't complete the install properly, and install Lazarus in the /usr/share directory (I wouldn't have guessed that!) However this is not a criticism of the author as I looked at building ebuilds for these packages myself and chickened out. These have gotten us more then 1/2 way there.

*Edit* removed the first fix for fpc, as the ebuild seems to have been fixed.

Gacha · Post by **Gacha** » Tue May 03, 2005 7:04 am

Thanks for help, I will try this later.

jamiethehutt · Post by **jamiethehutt** » Wed May 04, 2005 8:35 am

Hmm when I installed FPC I never had any of these problems.

Nice howto all the same.

davecs · Post by **davecs** » Wed May 04, 2005 11:17 am

I tried this, and got "fpc-2.0.0_rc2" and did not need the first "fix". However I still needed the second one!

Thanks!

(It's so long since I played with Delphi for Windoze that it's gonna take a lot of remembering!)

iplayfast · Post by **iplayfast** » Wed May 04, 2005 2:39 pm

davecs wrote:I tried this, and got "fpc-2.0.0_rc2" and did not need the first "fix". However I still needed the second one!

Thanks!

(It's so long since I played with Delphi for Windoze that it's gonna take a lot of remembering!)

Whas my first fix the same as what got installed normally for you?

davecs · Post by **davecs** » Sat May 07, 2005 4:17 pm

iplayfast wrote: Was my first fix the same as what got installed normally for you?

No, I just looked and all the files /usr/bin/fpc* are executables, no links. And no fpc386, just

fpc, fpcmake. fpcmkcfg, fpcsubst

Strange, eh?

iplayfast · Post by **iplayfast** » Tue May 10, 2005 3:21 am

Well I just unmerged and then re-emerged and it's now working the same for me. (fpcmake et all) So I'll edit my original link. Looks like it's been fixed.