2010/7/29 Juha Manninen <[email protected]>: > Ok, > we had a Skype phone+chat session with my friend again trying to install > Lazarus, this time on a Windows XP laptop. I thought it must be an easy task > and we are done quickly. I was wrong again! > > He managed to install Lazarus by himself. So yes, it is easy to install but > read on... First he made a directory for my program under C:\. Then he > opened the project with Lazarus. Everything looked good. Then he clicked > "Run" button --> "cannot write to directory lib" ... or something. > Apparently he did't have enough rights for the folder. But now, why was he > able to create the folder through "My Computer" if he has no rights for it? > I just don't know Windows enough to understand it. > > Then he made an empty test project and saved it under the user's default > directory and tried to run it. There was an error about executing ppc or > something. Then we both were so pissed off that we closed the Skype session. > F**k! > > Before that we were fighting with zip packages. The Windows machine didn't > have a zip program installed. I made a mistake first and recommended Peazip > "because it is made with Lazarus". My friend installed it but the UI is so > weird that he couldn't use it. Finally he installed a decent archiver, jzip, > and could extract my source package. > > Why this Lazarus must be such a weirdo-land? The only known program made > with Lazarus, excluding Lazarus itself, is Peazip and it is so weird that a > "normal" person can't use it. > The installation of FPC + Lazarus fails on 2 major platforms: Windows and > OSX (again for a "normal" person). I would say a mainstream Linux distro is > the only place where is actually works "for sure" (after one manages to > install the distro I mean). > > Now I have read many comments that Lazarus Windows installer is a really > easy one-click system. I admit that the installation is easy but the result > was a broken system so it doesn't help much. > How do you people explain this episode with the "idiot proof" Windows > installer? Do you think I made up the story. No, it really happened to a > real person, on a real Windows XP laptop and I really tried to help him > through a Skype session. > And yes, he has been able to install other SW when he wanted. > > His feeling is of course "why do you give me this crappy SW. Is it some kind > of joke?". I would have the same feeling if someone handed me a program I > can't even install. I can myself be very irritated sometimes when a system > doesn't work while it should. > > I think I must learn GUI programming with Java and port the code. Java is > already installed on those machines and runs for sure. > The other choise is to boot Windows XP on my mini-laptop, install Lazarus > there and build the program, then send the binary to my friend. He lives 250 > km away and I don't drive there now. > > Write once, compile everywhere. Right yeah...
Yawn. Nobody will help you if you don't give specific errors/screenshots. Also, take your peazip complaints somewhere else. If you can't even manage to install it, how will you be able to program useful software? -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
