See section Preparation for the first start below. For this purpose Lazarus offers to write its configuration files into a specific directory so that both versions can coexist. If you already have another Lazarus version on your system it is recommended to keep the old version and to keep it separate from the new installation. Moreover, it is recommended to avoid spaces in the folder name because it may confuse some tools used by Lazarus. The current releases of the Windows Lazarus installer packages install very easily, and should work 'out-of-the-box'.ĭo not install into the standard program folder c:\Program Files because access to it is restricted. 3.9 What does the bigide make argument do?īy far the easiest and most common way to install Lazarus on Windows is to go to the official Lazarus SourceForge download site select an appropriate combined FPC/Lazarus installation package, download the latest release and launch the installer.3.3 Getting the Lazarus sources from a snapshot.3.2.2 Downloading Lazarus development version source.3.2.1 Downloading Lazarus 'fixes' version source.3.2 Getting the Lazarus sources from the command line.3.1 Getting the Lazarus sources by using TortoiseSVN.3 Installing Lazarus from sources on Windows.2 Installing Lazarus on a Portable USB device.
