If you pursue the knowledge and skill, you will have the power. If you give up, you'll stay as you are
You might be right, but I have to see this from a pragmatic angle - the purpose for me is to use Lazarus, not spend days guessing why in heavens name it won't work.
And the fact is, I have installed from absolutely scratch, with both the stable version, and version 1.4RC3, and none of them are working, despite I have followed all the good advices given by you.
So I have no clue in which magical way you have succeeded, but that's good on you - from my point of view I cannot spend days or weeks desperately trying to decipher it, therefore I have to find another solution.
Then in a couple of years, when Lazarus have matured a bit more, I can hope it is possible to get it to work.
Don't misunderstand me, I like Lazarus very much, and I advocate a lot for it, but the setup is overwhelming, and I do only have 24 hours a day to do with.
And we have to be open, that these kind of difficulties will be considered as a show stopper for many new users of Lazarus, albeit a lot of friendly help is to be found here.