2010/10/14 Bo Berglund <bo.bergl...@gmail.com>: > I got fpc-2.4.0.i386-win32 released in Dec 2009 from SF. > I also got the combined lazarus-0.9.28.2-fpc-2.2.4-win32 with an > earlier release. > Both are binary installers. > > If I run the FPC installer I will get 2.4.0 and if I then run the > Lazarus installer it may or may not install FPC 2.2.4. I hope it will > detect the existing 2.4.0 fpc and *not* use the 2.2.4 version it is > bundled with. But is this the case? > No, it does not detect it, not does it use it. It also does not interfere with it.
> Or does the lazarus installer not check that there is already a newer > FPC on the system and skip the fpc 2.2.4 installation? In that case > ther will be two different FPC versions installed; so which will be > used by any compile command issued? > The included fpc 2.2.4 installation is more or less private to the Lazarus installation. If you compile in Lazarus, the fpc compiler which is in the set in the environment options is used. If you compile from the command line, the fpc compiler set in the make command is used. If none is set, the first fpc compiler on the path is used. > Unfortunately our firewall does not let svn calls through so I can't > use the svn sources at work... > You can download just the sources too. But that is not incremental ... Vincent -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
