On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Bo Berglund <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:25:35 -0200, Marcos Douglas <[email protected]> >>See this tutorial to build FPC and Lazarus on Windows: >>http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus#Compiling.2Finstalling_FPC_and_Lazarus_from_Sources_of_SVN_.28Win32.29 > > The instructions tell me to download FPC 2.5.1 but I don't want that, > I want to just *recompile* my 2.4.2 with the single source change > being the patch of sqldb.pp I received in a post here.
I changed to /fpc/branches/fixes_2_4/ > It also tells me to get binutil stuff from a fpc fixes branch, > http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcbuild/branches/fixes_2_4/install/binw32 > using TortoiseSVN, but when I try that exactly nothing happens. :-( > > Then I tried this command line command (all on one line): > > svn co > http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcbuild/branches/fixes_2_4/install/binw32 > binw32 In the Windows Explorer, click on right button on a folder (follow the tutorial) and after click "SVN Checkout". > But it stalled completely, nothing was shown unlike when I retrieved > the lazarus sources. > > Next: > The URL when clicked normally in a browser opens a page with a set of > exe files, though. > > Am I supposed to click and download these one by one? It takes about a > minute or more for each of the 4 files I have tried and there are many > more (actually 29 files more). Why isn't there a zipfile with all of > these binaries so that one can download a single file to get the > binutils? NO! Do the same above. > Then I am asked to get 2.5.1 trunk sources from SVN and make a clean > install from these.... I changed to 2.4.3 version now... > Isn't there a simpler way???? > The simpler way is use the installer. > When I already have a working fpc 2.4.2 can't I build a new fpc where > the single change is the sqldb.pp modification???? YES, you can! Just use the BAT in the tutorial. They serve to any version of FPC. > Isn't there a command similar to rebuilding lazarus that works for FPC > itself? > These instructions seem to be geared towards building FPC from scratch > without having anything at all.... No, I use the same BAT files always I want to rebuild the FPC. For Lazarus, just use the BAT only once. After you have the IDE, use the Build option on Lazarus' menu. Marcos Douglas -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
