Acknowledgement

As of August 28, 2015, this new repo contains all previous commits by Reinier. Many thanks towards user "Arvur" (see forum) for making this possible. Follow the fpcup development on http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,27211.0.html

What is it?

Fpcup, fpclazup and fpcupdeluxe are basically wrappers around svn/make on steroids. They try to use the FPC/Lazarus build process as much as possible.

Fcpupdeluxe is the latest addition that adds a GUI to ease its use.

Shortcut on your desktop are created that point to the new (Lazarus) installation.

Meant to be used side by side with other FPC/Lazarus installations. It creates a separate primary config path directory for the new Lazarus installation, so it doesn't interfere with existing Lazarus installs.

It's open source software released under the LGPL with linking exception (same as FreePascal), and contains some open source libraries with their own license. See source files for details. All use permitted, also commercial, but no warranties, express or implied.

Prerequisites

Windows
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none If needed, the tool will download all needed binaries (bootstrap compiler, binutils, svn executable)
Linux
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GNU make
the binutils (make etc); e.g. in a package called build-essential
bunzip2 (probably present in most distributions)
unzip
untar
subversion client: svn
gdb is not needed for building FPC/Lazarus but needed for debugging your Lazarus programs
libX11, libgdk_pixbuf-2.0, libpango-1.0, libgdk-x11-2.0 E.g. on Debian or Ubuntu, do something like: sudo aptitude install make binutils build-essential gdb subversion zip unzip libx11-dev libgtk2.0-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev
Apple OSX
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Xcode and Xcode command line tools
FreeBSD 9+
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none, but strongly recommended to use a newer gdb than the 6.1 version supplied with the system, e.g. by cd /usr/ports/devel/gdb make -DBATCH install clean Use gdb in /usr/local/bin/gdb
for Lazarus, you'll need XWindows with GTK (default) or Qt

Cross compiler extensions

Fpcupdeluxe has a facility to extend its functionality building and using cross compiling modules.

Install data collection

Fpcupdeluxe >= 1.6.0a sends some data about its installs towards a central server. For this, it uses the famous mORMot framework. You can check this data yourself:
https://www.batterybutcher.com/fpcup/getinfohtml
https://www.batterybutcher.com/fpcup/getinfojson
https://www.batterybutcher.com/fpcup/getinfohtml?Country=China
https://www.batterybutcher.com/fpcup/getinfohtml?FPCVersion=trunk

The data collection can be disabled by a setting in setup+

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