diff --git a/docs/INSTALL b/docs/INSTALL index ea8ca2ad18..aacaf55975 100644 --- a/docs/INSTALL +++ b/docs/INSTALL @@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ properly: 1.2 Installing FreePascal under Windows: ToDo: Write me. + + See www.freepascal.org. 2. Installing Lazarus @@ -115,6 +117,45 @@ properly: 2.1 Installing Lazarus under Windows: - ToDo: Write me. + Under windows the IDE does not run well. So don't expect too much. + + Thx to Joe for this Step-by-step description: + + You have to download the lazarus source: + ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/source/lazarus.zip + + Then unzip it to c:\lazarus for example. + You have to install at least fpc1.0.6. It compiles to me and lazarus.exe + works. The path to my fpc is: c:\pp\bin\win32. In this directory you + can find a lot of exe (make, grep, ppc386, and so on). + + Open a command line. Start->Run...>command or choose MS-DOS icon. + Type: + cd c:\lazarus + set path=c:\pp\bin\win32;c:\lazarus //of course change the first to + //the path of yours + windres -i lazarus.rc -o lazarus.res + make + + If you are lucky then you can type: lazarus.exe + At this moment I do not suggest to try source editor (if you compiled + with 1.0.6 on win98se). Maybe you have to reboot. Dialogs work and the + property editor but... Look and you will see. + (With fpc1.0.7 no hangs.) + + You can compile examples also: + cd examples + make + + If you extracted lazarus to another drive, eg.: d:\lazarus. It can happen + that you need the gnu utility to make it. If you have it, you can take its + path to set path=...; but it is simpler not to choose drive d:\ + + That's all. +3.1 Installing Lazarus under BSD + + ToDo: Write Me. + +