Installation hints for lazarus ============================== Lazarus provides two main parts: - LCL - the Lazarus Component Library - IDE - the RAD tool What is required for lazarus: - FreePascal - the FreePascal Compiler plus packages plus fpc sources. IMPORTANT: try to get the same version of the sources and the installed compiler. - Under Linux/xxxBSD: gtk libaries - Most distributions already install them. See www.gtk.org. You need gtk 1.x. The new gtk2 is not yet supported. The FAQ - Frequently Asked Question is available at www.lazarus.freepascal.org and some can be found in the file 'FAQ'. The following will describe how to get FreePascal and how to install lazarus properly: ================================================================================ 1. Quick installation guide -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1.1 This is the short version. For more details, see the following sections. Lazarus is intended to be a development tool. Therefore it is designed, that any normal user can easily install his local copy. This means, lazarus does not need to be installed as root and it does not any sym links or config entries. You can literally just unpack it into a directory of your choice and compile it. 1.2 Under Linux/BSD: Make sure, that you have installed X, gtk1 and gtk1-devel. Download and install FreePascal. Either the rpm, tgz or the daily snapshot. You need at least fpc 1.0.10 (1.0.x is the stable version of fpc, the 1.9 is the development version). To compile lazarus (LCL + IDE) go to your unpacked lazarus source and do: []$ make clean all You don't need "./configure" and you don't need "make install". You now have already a complete lazarus. You can start the IDE with "./lazarus". The "make install" as root will just copy the files and set some nice sym links and desktop entries. 1.3 Under Mac OS X: What you need: Apple Developer-tools, X11, gtk1.2: 1. Developer-tools: Are included on the original OSX installation-CDs, or download at ADC (free registration required) http://developer.apple.com/. 2. Apple X11: On a fresh system: choose "Customize" in the install-dialogue, check "X11". On an already installed system: download at http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/x11formacosx.html The X11-Application is in /Applications/Utilities/X11. 3. gtk1.2: The gtk is installed easily with a package manager like fink. Download fink from http://fink.sourceforge.net/download/index.php?phpLang=en and follow the install instructions. In the Terminal, run sudo fink install gdk-pixbuf gtk+ gtk+-data \ gtk+-shlibs gtk-doc 1.2-13 gtkglarea gtk-engines Starting any gtk application (including lazarus apps) will start with the gtk default theme, which does not look very nice on Mac. There are some aqua themes. For example: AquaGraphite or Aque. ================================================================================ 2. Installing FreePascal -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.1 Installing FreePascal under Linux: Lazarus requires a fpc (FreePascal) version 1.0.10 and it requires both - the compiled fpc libs (binaries) and the fpc sources. The fpc 1.0.6 is too buggy. The fpc binaries: At the lazarus downloads section (www.lazarus.freepascal.org or http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=89339) you can get the rpm/deb of the freepascal compiler(compiler / linux) and its packages. Or if you don't have a rpm system, you can download and install the tars from the www.freepascal.org. If you want to compile the binaries for yourself see the BSD section. The fpc sources: The easiest way to get the freepascal sources is via svn. Of course you can also download it as whole, see http://www.freepascal.org/develop.html for the daily snapshot of the release tree (2.0.x). The fpc sources via svn: Create a directory, where you would like to put the sources. You don't need to be root to do this. Any normal user can do this. First create a directory for fpc (e.g. /home/username/freepascal) then do the following: []$ bash []$ svn checkout http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/trunk fpc This will create a directory fpc, which can be later used in the IDE. Hint: To download/update the latest changes you can simply do []$ cd /home/username/freepascal/fpc []$ svn up -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.2 Installing FreePascal under Windows: ToDo: Write me. See http://www.freepascal.org/down-win32.html. You can find a list of mirrors at http://www.freepascal.org/sdown.html. Download for example fpc as one big file, unzip it and run the install.exe. Then extend your PATH variable to the fpc directory. For example under win98: Edit autoexec.bat and add the line PATH=%PATH%;C:\pp\bin\bin\win32 Then restart win98. ToDo: explain how to download fpc sources and build the compiler -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.3 Installing FreePascal under BSD/manually: Read 1.2 first. Effectively, you need: - a file with all sources, or two (fpc and lazarus) (1) e.g. for fpc ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/fpc/dist/Linux/separate/sources.tar preferably an export (no SVN/ dirs). The above file misses this (2) Lazarus source snapshot. - _any_ starting compiler from the 1.0 branch) You can do a check by parsing the output of ppc386 -i if it is 1.0.6 .. 1.0.8 it is ok. - dependant packages. (for FreeBSD that is gtk12, glib12 and gdk_pixbuf and GNU make, iconv and gettext) FPC build: (1) (fetch) necessary files (FPC source, starting compiler) (2) (extract) Then de-tgz in work directory, (3 (build) enter work/fpc/ and run $MAKE all OPT='-gl -O3p3' PP=/path/to/startingcompiler-name-ppc386 (/path/to/ can be omitted when ppc386 is in the path) ($MAKE is make on linux and gmake on BSD) (4) (install) then, again in work/fpc, run $MAKE install PP=compiler/ppc386 PREFIX=$THEPREFIX (THEPREFIX= usually is /usr/lcoal, but e.g. on NetBSD it is /usr/pkg for ports) Create a symlink ln -s $THEPREFIX/lib/fpc/1.0.8/ppc386 $THEPREFIX/bin/ppc386 install sourceinstall PREFIX=$THEPREFIX (5) (configure) run compiler/utils/samplecfg $THEPREFIX/lib/fpc/1.0.8 $ETCDIR (6) (optional, test), see if ppc386 -i gives output, else give a warning that user need to add $PREFIX/bin to his current path. Try to compiler a program with -viwn, and see if that gives errors. Notes: - If you need fpcmake package lists, you need to generate or supply them yourself, (in the port, or in an extra archive) either way, do a dummy install to /tmp/pack and determine the files installed with find . >ll - $THEPREFIX and $ETCDIR should be user configurable. Otherwise local installs aren't possible. - BSDHIER=1 on all make commands forces BSD hierarchy conventions. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.4 Installing FPC on Mac OS X Read 1.3 first. Information: http://www.freepascal.org/fpcmac.html#TargetDarwin Download the latest Mac OS X dmg package. Since fpc for Mac OS X is under heavy development, it s recommended to use the latest fpc from svn. Open a terminal and type (without the []$) []$ svn checkout http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/trunk fpc This will create a directory fpc, which can also be later used by the IDE. Compile fpc: []$ make clean all Install fpc []$ sudo make install This will install fpc in /usr/local/bin. The compiler is for example /usr/local/bin/ppcppc. You can add the path to your /Users/username/.profile. Hint: To download/update the latest changes you can simply do []$ cd /Users/username/fpc []$ svn up ================================================================================ 3. Installing Lazarus -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.1 Installing Lazarus under Linux/BSD/MacOSX: Because the whole lazarus stuff is installed into one directory, uninstall is very easy and you don't need to be root to install lazarus. You can get tgz/zip files from the downloads section or you can download it directly via svn. ToDo: more details about the tars. Downloading lazarus svn: svn provides an easy way to update your sources by only downloading the changes. This is the recommended way and saves you a lot of time. A connection to the internet is needed for this: You don't to be root. Lazarus does not need any special permissions, neither during installation nor at runtime. First create a directory for lazarus (e.g. /home/username/freepascal) then do the following: connect to the svn server (note: lazarus and freepascal use the same server) []$ svn checkout http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/trunk lazarus compile lazarus: []$ cd lazarus []$ make (gmake on BSD) If fpc is installed correct, the compilation should work without problems. If not, see FAQ. Start lazarus []$ ./lazarus The IDE should start. If you started lazarus in a terminal, you can see some notes about missing settings. This is normal at first start. The IDE automatically tries to find out where the freepascal compiler and its sources are installed by searching in the most common directories. Check the paths: Use the IDE menu to go to Environment -> Environment Options -> Files The 'FPC Source directory' should point to your fpc source directory. This directory normally ends with /fpc/ or /fpcsrc/ (e.g. /usr/share/fpcsrc or /home/username/freepascal/fpc) and contains directories like 'compiler', 'docs', 'fcl', 'rtl' and 'packages'. ToDo: explain the other paths Hint: To update lazarus you can use []$ cd /home/username/freepascal/lazarus []$ svn up []$ make clean all (gmake on BSD) This will rebuild lazarus and create an IDE without lazarus packages. To link your installed packages do *after* the above: []$ make idepkg -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.1 Installing Lazarus under Windows: 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.