Building Lazarus from source in windows 7

[JSoftware]

I would recommend to use the newest of both. First build a trunk version of fpc, and then lazarus

When I had Delphi I simply renamed the GNU make to gmake, and made sure it was in path. You might be able to call it the way you do, but you need to put it in quotes("C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\make.exe" bigide)

[chronozphere]

Ok, after some messing about, phibermon suggested that I should just grab the latest snapshot and install that.

Seems like I was lagging behind with my 0.9.28.2 beta install. Now I do have 0.9.29 with FPC 2.4.3

It might be beneficial to have a setup that allows me to compile everything from source. Is it worthwhile to set that up, just to be able to get the last version quickly?

[User137]

I haven't really updated Lazarus more than once every 2 months or so from the daily snapshot with latest compiler. It doesn't get big changes often.

[Legolas]

As far as I know, make.exe is shipped with the fpc binary package, so you don't need to download it from elsewhere. Usually I do something like:

set path=c:\fpc\bin\i386-win32;%PATH%

cd c:\lazarus

make clean all

That's all