The very first thing I ever did on a Mac was install Lazarus, I used this page -
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus_on_MacOS_Xand afterwards made some substantial changes to the page to try and get things in order.
I made the point right at the top of the page that its a FIVE step process. You MUST do each step, you must do them in the order presented !
Step Two is get the command line tools. I made it a separate step 'cos people seemed to like skipping ....
Step Four is about the actual FPC and Lazarus. There is a link there, click it, then two clicks to the DMG files. Again, the instructions tell you to install in a particular order. For some reason, people don't ....
And Step Five, please note you must press Enter at the end of the line of text you have pasted in. And you can paste into it now.
Been some months since it all worked for me, lots of Apple updates, please consider updating those five steps !
Yep, I agree there is a lot of old stuff on the wiki, I was very reluctant to remove it so, on that page, I pushed it down below a heading "Legacy Information".
I consider searching for things on the Wiki a real problem. Most new arrivals, like me, wonder what on earth all that out of date stuff is there for. But we are not brave enough to discard it !
David