fpc cannot installed on MacOS Catalina

[trev]

I was able to install fpc-src and Lazarus. Despite an error message when launching Lazarus (appearing only the first time Lazarus is opened) everything else looks fine and I was able to compile a simple Cocoa application.

Thanks for the confirmation my workaround works for you!

Indeed, I always get that message dialog with a new installation. I seem to recall it was because the "editormacroscript" package is not supported on macOS.

[trev]

Logged bug: https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=36968

[mattias]

Install.log:

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./postinstall: /tmp/PKInstallSandbox.vFZ5uH/Scripts/org.freepascal.pkg.fpc-macos-x86-64-laz.QajxE2/postinstall: line 8: /usr/local/lib/fpc/Error: ppcx64 can't be executed, error message: Failed to execute "ppcx64", error code: 127/samplecfg: No such file or directory


Thanks for reporting.
I fixed it and uploaded it as fpc-3.0.4-macos-x86_64-laz-2.pkg.
Checksums:

md5sum
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sha1sum
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db747392e61f2e30830fbb428722e45ab5155635  lazarus-2.0.8-i686-macosx.dmg

sha256sum
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fpc-3.0.4-macos-x86_64-laz.pkg
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lazarus-2.0.8-i686-macosx.dmg

[axisdj]

Thanks so Much!

So I have been moving from vb6 to Laz in the last few weeks, finally got a MAC and tried to install fpc yesterday, and recieved the message failed install yesterday.

I was pretty discourage, BUT you posted a fix last night and I got it all up ands running on the MAC, thank you so much.

Now time to move code to MAC to see if it will compile!

[Philippe Aucoin]

Hello there,

I'm a new member.
I used Pascal and Lazarus before, on older systems.

On Catalina the release I got from Lazarus-Source forge (3.0.4 64 bits and 2.0.8 ) was easy to install and successful ... but (???)

At first launch a message came telling that a paquet IS NOT installed.
But the first projet I tried worked, compiled, and built too ... but
The Icon off the resulting building had a white sign like non working apps ... but
Actually it worked, then removing this app and re-building worked the right way !

Yes it works on macOS Catalina !