On 2012-11-22 23:34, Giuliano Colla wrote: > Thanks, but I managed to install. I just wanted to point out that those > incompatibilities may frighten or discourage a new user.
I do agree with what you said - all valid points. I would also like to point out that FPC (not sure about Lazarus) is available in a .tar.gz release as well – using its own home-grown installer. I use OpenSUSE 12.2 (and before that, many versions of Ubuntu) but never install FPC or Lazarus using the .rpm or .deb releases. I always use the binary .tar.gz release for FPC and install into a custom location (in my $HOME directory). I then download the source release of Lazarus, and manually compile that — also in a custom location in my $HOME directory. The reasoning is two-fold. * I can install into my $HOME directory * By manually compiling Lazarus, I am also testing if my FPC installation is correct to build my own projects. Most developers are often going to recompile Lazarus anyway - by installing new components. So it is just easier doing it from the start, and in a location where I have read/write access. Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
