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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > +-----------------------------------+ | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | | - Wuppertal - | | Germany | +-----------------------------------+
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