Installing Lazarus on MacOS remains in the too hard realm for me. I don't know why it's so hard, but I don't know OSX well.
I tried 2 different ways to install.
Downloading the binaries from sourceforge
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This worked well, per the instructions on the wiki, and then lazarus runs fine (used the FPC binaries from 2.0.11 release, and 2.0.10 lazarus, since 2.0.11 doesn't seem to exist). The first thing I do is install the anchorDocking and AnchorDockingDsgn packages. The IDE dutifully goes off and rebuilds, and then restarts, with docking (though only once I click on it somewhere). but when it restarts, it's in this funny mode where it doesn't get it's menu - it's running, but I get the finder menu instead. So when i close that and reopen lazarus, then I get the original lazarus, without docking.
Tried that cycle several times, and got the iDE to rebuild itself. no change.... beats me.
FPCUPdeluxe
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ok. try with FPCUpdeluxe, using stable.git for both versions. Builds no problems. sweet.
Lazarus won't run, using the icon it put in the applications folder:
"You can't open the applciation "lazarus" because it is not supported on this type of Mac."
And yes, it is the 64bit version. It does run, actually, if I run the "lazarus" file in the directory I installed it in, next to the lazarus app. but... that runs in the terminal, and I don't get any menus (just get the terminal menu). I can't figure out how to tell MacOS to run the executable properly.
At this point, I'm stuck. I don't think I did anything stupid...