Installing Lazarus on FreeBSD

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Installing Lazarus on FreeBSD

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The following applies to FreeBSD 10+ only.

via the Ports tree

The latest version of Lazarus available in the FreeBSD port tree, is v 2.0.0 We can use that to install Lazarus (GTK2 by default, QT4 or QT5). 

[]# cd /usr/ports/editors/lazarus && make install clean clean-depends

[]# cd /usr/ports/editors/lazarus-qt4 && make install clean clean-depends

[]# cd /usr/ports/editors/lazarus-qt5 && make install clean clean-depends

If you start Lazarus IDE and you get a messages about missing source files, then go to Environment - Environment Options - Files Tab: FPC source library and enter the directory of the FPC source files. It can be obtained from /usr/ports/distfiles/freepascal

via pkg

[]# pkg install editors/lazarus

[]# pkg install editors/lazarus-qt4

[]# pkg install editors/lazarus-qt5

At this point Lazarus might complain about missing source files. If you don't have them:- 

 mkdir /usr/ports/distfiles
 mkdir /usr/ports/distfiles/freepscal
 cd /usr/ports/distfiles/freepascal
 wget http://distcache.freebsd.org/ports-distfiles/freepascal/fpc-3.0.4.source.tar.gz
 tar xvfz fpc-3.0.4.source.tar.gz

Change the 3.0.4 to whatever version of fpc you have installed. Then go to Environment - Environment Options - Files Tab: FPC source library and enter 

 /usr/ports/distfiles/freepascal/fpc-3.0.4

If when you try to compile something you get this error 

 Error: resource compiler "fpcres" not found, switching to external mode

Then you can install fpcres like this 

[]# pkg install lang/fpc-utils

via the Lazarus repository

This option will often be used if you want to follow Lazarus Trunk, a Fixes branch, or some other release (eg: compiling from a source tarball).

  • Use the SubVersion or Git repositories to checkout a copy of the source code you want, or unpack a downloaded source archive into a suitable location
  • The readme.txt file in Lazarus directory mentions 'make clean all'. This works if you are using Linux. Under FreeBSD 9.1 I had to replace 'make' with 'gmake'.
 cd /patch/to/lazarus_source
 gmake clean all
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