Free Vision: How do I get it?

[marcov]

EDIT: I have two FPC versions installed so no global path is used.

Then add it to the local path, iow within the cmd.exe instantiation with the PATH command.

[garlar27]

Just in case, temporarily I've added the path to the FPC bin folder and tried again but I'm getting an error.
What am I doing wrong?

C:\Lazarus\Lazarus.1.6.2-FPC.3.0.0\fpc\3.0.0\bin\i386-win32>make.exe --debug -C C:\Lazarus\Lazarus.1.6.2-FPC.3.0.0\fpc\3.0.0\source\packages\fv
GNU Make 3.82
Built for i686-pc-mingw32
Copyright (C) 2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Reading makefiles...
Updating goal targets....
 File `default' does not exist.
   File `all' does not exist.
     File `fpmake.exe' does not exist.
    Must remake target `fpmake.exe'.
Invoking recipe from Makefile:2360 to update target `fpmake.exe'.
make.exe: Entering directory `C:/Lazarus/Lazarus.1.6.2-FPC.3.0.0/fpc/3.0.0/source/packages/fv'
C:/Lazarus/Lazarus.1.6.2-FPC.3.0.0/fpc/3.0.0/bin/i386-win32/ppc386.exe fpmake.pp -n -Fu../../rtl -Fu../../packages/paszlib -Fu../../packages/fcl-process -Fu../../packages/hash -Fu../../packages/libtar -Fu../../packages/fpmkunit
Fatal: Can't find unit system used by fpmake
Fatal: Compilation aborted
make.exe: *** [fpmake.exe] Error 1
make.exe: Leaving directory `C:/Lazarus/Lazarus.1.6.2-FPC.3.0.0/fpc/3.0.0/source/packages/fv'

[garlar27]

Well I changed the location and now the error has changed:

C:\Lazarus\Lazarus.1.6.2-FPC.3.0.0\fpc\3.0.0\source\packages\fv>make.exe --debug
GNU Make 3.82
Built for i686-pc-mingw32
Copyright (C) 2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Reading makefiles...
Updating goal targets....
 File `default' does not exist.
   File `all' does not exist.
     File `fpmake.exe' does not exist.
       File `fpmake.pp' does not exist.
      Must remake target `fpmake.pp'.
make.exe: *** No rule to make target `fpmake.pp', needed by `fpmake.exe'.  Stop.

C:\Lazarus\Lazarus.1.6.2-FPC.3.0.0\fpc\3.0.0\source\packages\fv>

Where is the rule to build fpmake.pp?

[garlar27]

Oops!!!
I Accidentally moved fpmake.pp 
I still have the same error as before:

C:\Lazarus\Lazarus.1.6.2-FPC.3.0.0\fpc\3.0.0\source\packages\fv>make.exe --debug
GNU Make 3.82
Built for i686-pc-mingw32
Copyright (C) 2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Reading makefiles...
Updating goal targets....
 File `default' does not exist.
   File `all' does not exist.
     File `fpmake.exe' does not exist.
    Must remake target `fpmake.exe'.
Invoking recipe from Makefile:2360 to update target `fpmake.exe'.
C:/Lazarus/Lazarus.1.6.2-FPC.3.0.0/fpc/3.0.0/bin/i386-win32/ppc386.exe fpmake.pp -n -Fu../../rtl -Fu../../packages/paszlib -Fu../../packages/fcl-process -Fu../../packages/hash -Fu../../packages/libtar -Fu../../packages/fpmkunit
Fatal: Can't find unit system used by fpmake
Fatal: Compilation aborted
make.exe: *** [fpmake.exe] Error 1

[marcov]

There should be no need for running make or fpmake at all, fv should be prepackaged in the "units" dir of FPC.

[garlar27]

It is there though I couldn't find fv.exe... 

[marcov]

fv is a library.

The textmode IDE is in ide/  and called "fp" as said in the second post in this thread

I don't know if Lazarus delivers its source, or that it got stripped. Note that building it with debugging is involved, you are probably better served by just downloading a complete standalone FPC install.