I have used Lazarus on Windows and Linux many years and I have built the Linux versions from sources but used the official installer for Windows.
On Linux I have had parallel versions of Lazarus but usually the same FPC and this has worked fine. I think that on Linux the FPC becomes a global version and then new Lazarus gets confused... On Windows the installer separates the complete package into a separate directory which contains both Lazarus and FPC and none is put on system path. So when I have say 6 different versions of Lazarus on Windows they are all separate and do not conflict with each other. Now I am having problems installing Lazarus 2.2.4 on Linux systems where older Lazarus version exist because they use an older FPC which the new Lazarus cannot use (3.0.4 vs 3.2.2). On Linux FPC is put on path and so the instant one installs 3.2.2 on a system already using 3.0.4 disaster follows... Is this the reason for the continued problems with fppkg? And another question: How can I force Lazarus to show the initial configuration page, which is shown on the very first start after installing Lazarus and later is skipped? I think I remember that there is a way to show it from within Lazarus but I cannot find where now... Either way I would like to look at the config page for a working system so I can see the differences between that and a Lazarus that behaves bad. -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden -- _______________________________________________ lazarus mailing list lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
