Installation of FPC and Lazarus

The main purpose of fpcdeluxe is to provide a means for installing and updating various versions of FPC and Lazarus in a self-contained manner. Self-contained meaning that an install by fpcupdeluxe will have no influence on your system at all: you can install multiple versions of FPC and Lazarus.

Only one requirement: you HAVE to use the generated link to start the install !

Advanced settings

Crosscompiling

Fpcupdeluxe makes cross-compiling easy: just select a CPU and an OS, and press install crosscompiler. If libraries and/or binary tools are needed, fpcupdeluxe will try to get them online.

Crosscompiling from Windows towards Darwin

With the help of fpcupdeluxe and a toolset called osxcross, you can crosscompile towards Darwin.
This help will concentrate on crossing from Windows towards Darwin only.

First, you will need to get osxcross, and compile it yourself.

osxcross original
osxcross for FPC

You will need the osxcross for FPC that has been adapted for use by FPC.

Get yourself a SDK, either from your own Mac, or from online sources: Various Mac SDK's

Build osxcross according to the instructions. E.g. on Windows with Cygwin.

Please note: to be able to cross from Windows towards Darwin, you need to have NewPascal installed ! NewPascal is FPC trunk with some additional features. Use fpcupdeluxe to install NewPascal.