Hi all: Just google "linux pascal compiler". Period.
Gustavo 2010/1/29 Hans-Peter Diettrich <drdiettri...@aol.com>: > IMO a good add-on to the "Lazarus is invisible?" thread. > > > Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: >>[snip] > > DoDi, your attitude does not help the Lazarus image. Lazarus, like many > (most?) OS projects *is* difficult to understand when looking through the > eyes of a person not yet familiar with Lazarus or the organization of the > web > pages/documentation. Most OS devs have grown with the project and have never > seen the steep hill in front of the newbie. > > Just go to the Lazarus web page (http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/) and > look > for installation instructions - nothing visible... > > But there is a FAQ (assuming everyone knows what a FAQ is) - nothing about > installation... > > But there is a Wiki (assuming everyone knows what a Wiki is) - nothing > obviously about installation... > > But there is the Lazarus Documentation section, now we're getting somewhere > - > Yes! After the tutorials is a user guide and finally I have found the link > "2.1 Installation". Click... > > And I get a new page which has the link "Installing Lazarus" at the top - > Now > we're really getting close. Click... > > And I get a new page where I optimistically select the first link, > "Overview" > - Click... > > And I get a text beginning "For people who simply want to install Lazarus > and > start using it for programming, the easiest approach is to download and > install a recent, reasonably stable binary release (such as a Linux ".rpm" > package, a Windows ".exe" installer, or a Mac OS X ".dmg" package). You can > read the sections under Linux or Windows entitled "fpc binaries" or the > first > paragraphs in the sections on installing Lazarus in Linux or Windows; most > of > the remaining information can be safely ignored." > > So, safely ignoring most of the document I walk along trying to find the > first paragraph on installation in Windows (maybe a link would have been > good?). OK, fastest way was to go Back and find the appropriately named > header and Click... on that. > > And I get a new page which begins "The current releases of the Windows > Lazarus binary packages install very easily, and should work > 'out-of-the-box'. ", then follows a pageful of discussion (!?) about > installing on a USB drive. > > So, we have "...simply want to install L. and start using it..." and > "...work > out-of-the-box...". No links to any "Getting started" section, no indication > that anything special is needed to get going. > > This complete lack of any information about what happens after installation > makes you "just start it and try it". And when *that* doesn't work out of > the > box, you throw it away. > > > Now, for the record, I have downloaded Lazarus quite a number of times and > started to test it, I have gotten a "Hello World!" program to compile and > work in Windows, and that's about it. When I tried to port a Delphi project > I > drowned in incompatibilities (not Lazarus/FPC's fault, but that was what > stopped me). When I tried to cross compile for some linux, I drowned in the > "you need version this of that and..." swamp (still not Lazarus/FPC's fault > but that was what stopped me). > > I do believe Lazarus/FPC can be used for serious programming, but the > learning curve is much too steep for me. > > -- > Anders Isaksson, Sweden > BlockCAD: http://www.blockcad.net > Gallery: http://www.blockcad.net/gallery/index.htm > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org > http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus > > -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus