Hi Andrew, No offence intended but I will follow the advice of the latter poster (Marcos).
:-) pew Fond Regards, Peter Eric WILLIAMS --- Hobart, Tasmania, Australia --- Phone: +61 (03) 6236-9675 My free websites are: http://pewink.info (&) http://pewslinuxvault.googlepages.com On 22 January 2011 16:40, Andrew Haines <andrewd...@aol.com> wrote: > On 01/22/11 14:31, Peter Eric Williams wrote: > > Hi pascal list, > > > > Please excuse me asking such a basic question, but I'm new to this list. > > > > I require the basic instructions for quick start with subversion for all > > of the free pascal compiler using subversion. > > > > I am using Windows 7 Ultimate and I am new to Free Pascal and Lazarus. > > > > you have the command right there > > "svn co http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/trunk fpc" > "svn co http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/trunk lazarus" > > This will create a folder named "fpc" and "lazarus" in the working > directory of the cmd.exe prompt you have open. > > If you are setting fpc up for the first time on this computer, you'll > need a starting compiler to compile the source you've just gotten. > Download the correct one from here: > ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/fpc/dist/2.4.2/bootstrap/ > > If you choose i386-win32-ppc386.zip then extracting that will give you > something like ppc386.exe > > cd into the fpc folder and type "PP=/path/to/ppc386.exe make all > install" generally that will install fpc into c:\fpc. It's important to > use gnu make since others like the MS one or borlands are not compatible > with the makefiles fpc uses. > > Anyway it's much easier to just install a snapshot from here: > http://www.hu.freepascal.org/lazarus/ > > Choose the "Lazarus + fpc 2.4.2" "win32" link. This should install a fpc > 2.4.2 compiler and the latest svn version of lazarus. > > Also this link has a lot of relevant information: > http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Getting_Lazarus > > Regards, > > Andrew > > An overview of requirements: > > 1 and 2 must be in the PATH. unless you use variables to set them > (MAKE=c:\path\to\make.exe AS=c:\path\to\as.exe etc.) > > 1. Gnu Make > 2. Possibly win32 binutils (as.exe ld.exe and some more) > 3. Latest Release of FPC for the starting compiler (currently 2.4.2) > 4. Fpc Source code, either from a zip file or gotten from subversion > (svn) (compile with a starting compiler from step 3) > 5. Lazarus source code (compile with fpc created in step 4) > > Further notes: > > gnu make gets cranky in windows if you use a path with spaces in it. > That is why fpc and lazarus are generally installed to c:\fpc or > c:\lazarus instead of c:\program files\... > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal >
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