A Guided Introduction to the Free Pascal Language

Re:A Guided Introduction to the Free Pascal Language by Akira1364 on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @04:08PM (#34165984)

Don't download the bundled Free Pascal and Lazarus distributions from this site, they're very outdated. Just get the normal releases from the actual Free Pascal and Lazarus sites which are linked at the top of the page. Lazarus comes with Free Pascal bundled by default anyways, so you don't need to grab the compiler separately if using Lazarus.

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Re:A Guided Introduction to the Free Pascal Language by user3939382 on Thursday December 29, 2022 @01:46AM (#34170198)

I downloaded Lazarus from its release page on Github and after installing it didn’t work, saying it needed extra binaries that it couldn’t find. Now I have to see what it’s talking about, what to install, etc. Kind of a hassle.

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Re:A Guided Introduction to the Free Pascal Language by Zuider on Thursday December 29, 2022 @03:09AM (#34170571)

fpcupdeluxe will automate the process of installing a working Lazarus/FPC environment. You can just click through, as the defaults are fine.

https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/fpcupdeluxe

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Re:A Guided Introduction to the Free Pascal Language by pkphilip on Thursday December 29, 2022 @04:20AM (#34170935)

You will need to install Free Pascal (fpc) separately

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Re:A Guided Introduction to the Free Pascal Language by Akira1364 on Thursday December 29, 2022 @05:27PM (#34178924)

Which Github page do you mean? I wasn't aware they'd started putting properly packaged binary releases on Github.

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