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Installation hints for lazarus
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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 sources.
- 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:
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1. Installing FreePascal
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1.1 Installing FreePascal under Linux:
Lazarus requires a fpc (FreePascal) version 1.0.7 not older than
21th september 2002 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) 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 cvs. Of course you can
also download it as whole, see http://www.freepascal.org/develop.html
for the daily snapshot of the release tree (1.0.x).
The fpc sources via cvs:
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
[]$ export CVSROOT=:pserver:cvs@cvs.freepascal.org:/FPC/CVS
[]$ cvs login
password is 'cvs' without the ''
[]$ cvs -z3 co -r FIXES_1_0_0 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
[]$ cvs -z3 update -dP
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1.2 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
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1.3 Installing FreePascal under BSD/manually:
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 CVS/ 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 $ETCDIR should be user configurable. Otherwise local installs
aren't possible.
- BSDHIER=1 on all make commands forces BSD hierarchy conventions.
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2. Installing Lazarus
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2.1 Installing Lazarus under Linux/BSD:
You can either install the rpms for lazarus, or follow these instructions.
Because the whole lazarus stuff is installed into one directory, uninstall
is very easy and you don't need to be root to install lazarus.
You can get zip files from the downloads section or you can download it
directly via cvs.
ToDo: more details about the tars.
Downloading lazarus cvs: cvs provides an easy way to update your sources by
only downloading the changes. This is the recommended way and saves you a lot
of time. A connection to the internet is needed for this:
You don't to be root. Lazarus does not need any special permissions, neither
during installation nor at runtime.
First create a directory for lazarus (e.g. /home/username/freepascal) then do
the following:
connect to the cvs server (note: lazarus and freepascal use the same server)
[]$ export CVSROOT=:pserver:cvs@cvs.freepascal.org:/FPC/CVS
[]$ cvs login
password is 'cvs' without the ''
download the lazarus sources:
[]$ cvs -z3 co 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/src/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
[]$ cvs -z3 update -dP
[]$ 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
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2.1 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=...;<gmakepath> but it is simpler not to choose drive d:\
That's all.
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3.1 Installing Lazarus under BSD