On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 23:07:03 +0100, Sven Barth <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 13.11.2010 22:53, Bo Berglund wrote: >> I downloaded the win32 installer from the ftp site and started it. >> While in the setup dialogs I found that it installs what it calls the >> FPC IDE and asks if I want to set file associations to point to the >> IDE. >> Question: >> Does this mean that it installs a new version of lazarus as well??? >> If not, what is the FPC IDE? Another development environment??? >> > >The FPC IDE is the text mode IDE maintained by the FPC team itself >(Lazarus is a separate but closely related project). The IDE resembles >the Turbo Pascal IDE, but has some modern features as well. > >You can install it without any conflicts with Lazarus. It's inside the >%FPCINSTALLDIR%\bin\i386-win32\ folder and named "fp.exe". > >You should not associate the source files with FP IDE though if you >prefer Lazarus. > >> I was about to install fpc into c:\Programs\lazarus\fpc\2.4.2, but now >> I am not so sure because of the confusing dialogs. :-( >> >> The c:\Programs\lazarus\fpc\2.2.4 folder was where the Lazarus >> installer deposited the fpc version 2.2.4, so I figured that I could >> put 2.4.2 in parallel to that version in folder 2.4.2. >> > >You can install into that folder without problems. As said the two IDEs >won't conflict with each other (except the file associations, but most >applications have a similar problem ^^). > Thanks for the clarification! I will go ahead and install fpc, then change the compiler location in Lazarus and recompile it and go from there. :-) Bo Berglund -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
