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Date:      Tue, 17 Jun 2003 15:22:21 +0200 (CEST)
From:      "P. U. Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
To:        Marco van de Voort <marcov@stack.nl>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: port request: lazarus
Message-ID:  <20030617152009.C668@small.pukruppa.de>
In-Reply-To: <20030616222836.17921A866@snail.stack.nl>
References:  <20030616222836.17921A866@snail.stack.nl>

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Thanks for your answer, Marco!

I think I will give things a try next weekend.

Regards,

Uli.


On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Marco van de Voort wrote:

>
> > I just read an article about a project called Lazarus - a free
> > Delphi clone based upon freepascal (which is already ported to
> > FreeBSD in /usr/ports/lang/fpc ).
>
> Read the Lazarus FAQ. You need a 1.0.7 development snapshot, or 1.0.8 (which is
> currently being packaged) to do this. The 1.0.4 FPC version in the ports tree is too old
> to build Lazarus.
>
> > Information can be found on www.lazarus.freepascal.org  .
> >
> > I think it would be a nice idea if someone who knows about these
> > things tried to port it. Pascal is still frequently used for
> > beginner's programming courses in schools and universities.
>
> Lazarus works (which I define as starts up) on Free and NetBSD/x86.  OpenBSD
> too, if I could be motivated to do some work to streamline the build process
> (OpenBSD has an AS version that is very old and seems to be buggy)
>
> There is no porting involved, the buildprocess is pretty much doing
>
> gmake all
>
> in the CVS checkout, with a suitable compiler.
>
> Dependancies are gdk_pixbuf, gtk12, glib12 and gdk12, gmake, iconv, gettext
> (both pretty much every version)
>
> We also did some experiments, and we assume it also works on NetBSD/m68k, but the
> machine didn't have enough discspace and speed (think 33 MHz) to fully test this.
>
> I happened to be building a binary (CVS this afternoon, but with the to-be-released
> FPC 1.0.8) when I read this msg, so I put it online. It was on my laptop though, which
> still runs 4.6.2.
>
> http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/lazarus.bz2
>
> The 1.0.8 to be released can be found here, and includes sources. Simply
> unpack, and run script:
>
> ftp://freepascal.stack.nl/pub/fpc/dist/FreeBSD
>
> You could install these, and ask more info on Lazarus' list. Keep in mind that while Lazarus
> is usable, it is still under very heavy development.
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|        Peter Ulrich Kruppa        |
|          -  Wuppertal -           |
|              Germany              |
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