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jwdietrich

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Re: OK, I'm too dumb for installing - any help appreciated
« Reply #15 on: May 12, 2014, 02:18:51 am »
That means that you have a dead alias. Usually, the original file is located at /usr/local/lib/<fpc version>/<ppcXXX>, e. g. /usr/local/lib/2.6.4/ppcppc or /usr/local/lib/2.6.2/ppc386. You should try to re-install FPC or to manually replace the alias with a correct one.
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Re: OK, I'm too dumb for installing - any help appreciated
« Reply #16 on: May 12, 2014, 04:31:38 pm »
That sounds reasonable. I'll give it a try tomorrow and then let you know. Thx a lot!

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Re: OK, I'm too dumb for installing - any help appreciated
« Reply #17 on: November 29, 2014, 09:00:53 pm »
That sounds reasonable. I'll give it a try tomorrow and then let you know. Thx a lot!

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function GetRandomNumber: integer; // xkcd.com
begin
  GetRandomNumber := 4; // chosen by fair dice roll. Guaranteed to be random.
end;

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Re: OK, I'm too dumb for installing - any help appreciated
« Reply #18 on: April 17, 2015, 10:51:55 pm »
Hey JWDietrich

Sorry for letting you (all) wait for my answer. But unfortunately I failed on all tries. I was hacking so much on my OS X that I finally had to reinstall my Mac :( Anyway, I used this unintended opportunity to change my HD to a new SSD; wonderful side affect though :P
So I gave up on Lazarus an converted my porgy to PHP, MySQL and HTML. It went ok, I sold it, it is productive ever since and I'll keep on with that.
But, nevertheless, here I am again: the need for a native prog on Mac arose again. And since I'm too afraid of making the same errors again, I'll start out on a virtual machine (I love Oracle for that!).

Pls community:
would you all be so kind and help thru this again? What are the steps to take? I am ready to try again. Could anyone pls post the actual links for downloads here and (treating me the douche I am...) in the required order of installation?

Thx (it won't take another year for my reply, promise)

Jonas Maebe

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Re: OK, I'm too dumb for installing - any help appreciated
« Reply #19 on: April 19, 2015, 06:11:58 pm »
Download and install fpc-2.6.4.intel-macosx.dmg from http://www.freepascal.org/down/i386/macosx-netherlands.var

Download and install all files except for fpc-2.6.4.intel-macosx.dmg from http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/Lazarus%20Mac%20OS%20X%20i386/Lazarus%201.4RC3/ (the order doesn't matter)

That's it.

Edit: well, at least if your system has been set up for developing already. If not, first install the Xcode command line tools (http://wiki.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus_on_MacOS_X#Xcode_5.0.2B_compatibility_.28Mac_OS_X_10.8_and_10.9.29 ). And if you want to debug from the Lazarus IDE, also install gdb: http://wiki.freepascal.org/GDB_on_OS_X_Mavericks_and_Xcode_5
« Last Edit: April 19, 2015, 06:15:48 pm by Jonas Maebe »

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Re: OK, I'm too dumb for installing - any help appreciated
« Reply #20 on: April 22, 2015, 09:51:42 pm »
 :D :D
That's exactly what I was looking for. Thx a lot.
If you say "If not, first install Xcode...", this would be in advance of anything else? I did not prepare this (virtual) machine for anything.

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Re: OK, I'm too dumb for installing - any help appreciated
« Reply #21 on: April 26, 2015, 09:10:59 am »
If you say "If not, first install Xcode...", this would be in advance of anything else? I did not prepare this (virtual) machine for anything.

Yes, that it the advice. Normally, you shouldn't even be able to install Free Pascal without having installed Xcode and its command line tools.
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Re: OK, I'm too dumb for installing - any help appreciated
« Reply #22 on: April 28, 2015, 07:35:29 pm »
Thx, I will keep you informed about success or ... >:(

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Re: OK, I'm too dumb for installing - any help appreciated
« Reply #23 on: May 24, 2015, 04:07:14 pm »
Holy crap!  >:(
I followed all the instructions an look at this: same error!!!
I go crazy  :o :o :o :o :o :o

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Re: OK, I'm too dumb for installing - any help appreciated
« Reply #24 on: May 24, 2015, 04:52:58 pm »
Ok, I dived deeper into the error msg and followed a remarkable amount of wiki links talking about "home-brew", "fink", "code signing" and so I did a few of these things (as far as I was able to understand and believe) and voilà: I somehow managed to compile my "Hello World" (see pic.) - thank you everybody!!

But (!): when I use CMD-R to compile and run I get a new error (funny, isn't it?)

 

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