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slapshot · Joined: 02 Apr 2006 Posts: 270 Location: Italy

Hi all,

I installed FPC and it's source and compiled Lazarus under Puppy 2.13 and I would like to make a dotpup to make it easy to install. Now, I downloaded and installed dotpup wizard but there is a point I cannot understand. The wizard ask for the executable file and tell me that it creates a script under /usr/local/bin asking for a binary. Now, if I choose fpc, which is free pascal binary file, it hides this binary file and I cannot start fpc compiler after the installation of dotpup. BTW, fpc has a binary just in /usr/local/bin and also other files but this one is overriden by th fpc.sh dotpup wizard creates.
For lazarus I didn't try yet.

How can I solve this problem ?

Thanks.

MU · Posted: Thu 08 Mar 2007, 16:44 Post subject:

You should create

/root/lazarus/run-lazarus

This could be such a script:

slapshot · Joined: 02 Apr 2006 Posts: 270 Location: Italy

Hi Mark,

thank you, I will try it as soon as possible.

Antonio

Ledster · Joined: 26 Aug 2006 Posts: 62 Location: Devon, England

Any joy with this yet?
I'd really like to have Lazarus in Puppy, but I got bogged down in dependencies when I tried.

Ches

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6663 Location: lisbon

has anybody tried just renaming the slax lazarus .mo as an .sfs file?

http://merlin.fit.vutbr.cz/mirrors/slax/SLAX-5-modules/develop/Lazarus_IDE_Free_Pascal_Compiler_0_9_13_FPC2_02-1.mo

i'm just dloading it in my local library & will let you know how it goes.

slapshot · Joined: 02 Apr 2006 Posts: 270 Location: Italy

Hi Ledster,

afaik there is no dependencies for Lazarus. I did not terminated anymore to create a lazarus dotpup because it is really easy to download and compile it.
Just download and install fpc on Puppy, then download entire Lazarus sources and follow the installme file to compile it (using fpc) and having it running and working properly.

Let me know about your problem, maybe I can have some suggest for you or I can try to create one dotpup for you is slax one is not working on Puppy.

Bye
Slapshot

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6663 Location: lisbon

the slax .mo isn't the latest lazarus version, but just renaming .mo to .sfs, then using the .sfs bootmanager to load it next boot, then type lazarus at prompt, and your up & running with version 0.9.14. that's as far as i've gone, as the last time i did anything with pascal was with turbopascal on dos.

slax also has a kylix.mo file, (for kylix 3.0)

slapshot · Joined: 02 Apr 2006 Posts: 270 Location: Italy

Lazarus right now is on 0.9.23 version, and it is an opensource project so I would prefer to download it via an SVN client (look at Puppy repository via PetGet) and build it up with "make clean install". FPC could be download with its packaging with no problem. I recall it is 2.0.4 on its latest stable.

Ledster · Joined: 26 Aug 2006 Posts: 62 Location: Devon, England

Sounds like it should be fairly easy (famous last words!)
However, I am only on dial up so would like to know which files I should use before I download. A look at the Sourceforge site shows a wide selection.

Choices are deb's, rpm's or this rather odd mixture - fpc-2.0.4.i386-linux.tar, fpc-src-2.0.4.source.tgz, lazarus-0.9.22-1.tar.gz.
(Interestingly the crosswin compiler files are only available in deb and rpm format)

Last time I downloaded the rpm files for fpc, fpcsrc and lazarus and used unrpmfull to extract them to /mnt/home (/initrd/mnt/dev_save then). It needed a lot of fiddling with to get directories where they were expected to be (perhaps some symlinks would have worked better/quicker - and saved me having to increase the size of my Puppy save file) and I actually got Lazarus to run, but it would not compile a program - complained it needed ld, which is a kernel command, I believe, and something to do with linking.

All help and advice will be gratefully received.

Ches

slapshot · Joined: 02 Apr 2006 Posts: 270 Location: Italy

Here you can download Lazarus 0.9.25 compiled in Puppy 3.x. Sorry for late Wink

.

http://www.giovelug.org/index.php?lng=en&mod=download&pg=indice&c=5

MU · Posted: Thu 08 Nov 2007, 17:42 Post subject:

mirror:
http://dotpups.de/puppy3/dotpups/Programming/
Mark

Lobster · Posted: Fri 09 Nov 2007, 02:10 Post subject:

I just installed the Lazurus environment (it took a while but was simple and successful) Smile

you also need freepascal (another 30MB)
http://www.freepascal.org/

run

slapshot · Joined: 02 Apr 2006 Posts: 270 Location: Italy

@MU
Thanks for your mirroring Smile

@Lobster
Lazarus needs of fpc and its sources downloadable here:
http://www.freepascal.org/down/source/sources-ftp.freepascal.org.var

One of the environment options want to search for them.

About the size it is not so small because Lazarus compiles with all LCL inside the binary but it has this advantages:

1. Fastness (as any compiled software)
2. No dipendencies at all. All it is into monolithic binary

For the size, with growing of the code you can see it does not grow so much compared to other compilers. Please, have a look to:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Faq#Why_are_the_generated_binaries_so_big.3F

Stripping the simbols and using UPX can shrink so much binary size.

Lobster · Posted: Fri 09 Nov 2007, 04:51 Post subject:

slapshot · Joined: 02 Apr 2006 Posts: 270 Location: Italy

You're welcome Lobster Smile

.

Anyway, Lazarus is a good product. Now it is emerging also another gui framework that can cross-compile linux-windows with no dependencies at all about widgetsets, I mean it is fpGUI. Try to have a look at:

http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/fpGUI_Interface

I did not try it, yet, but I will soon.