I just posted this in another topic but then saw that this was here as well, so I am reposting since it might be of help to anyone who wants to run the lazarus in puppy and with minimal time wasted. I was able to get it working in a few minutes on a standard PC. I have puppy linux booted from disk but this will also work with a CD frugal install which puppy does automatically.
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Hello,
I tested Lazarus this morning with Puppy Linux 4.31 and it was simple. No building anything, just link up the right .sfs files in the puppy Bootup Configure utility and then Lazarus was ready to go after reboot.
I downloaded Puppy 4.31, and then devx_431.sfs which is at the same puppy site, and then I got this interesting .sfs that contains a built and ready lazarus from the link at puppyspace.
From:
http://petstore.puppyspace.org/s5d/utility/lazarus-0.9.28.2-complete.sfsTo: C:\download\lazarus-0.9.28.2-complete.sfs
Size: 114.4 MB (119,877,632 bytes)
Transferred: 114.4 MB (119,877,632 bytes)
Once rebooted, I found lazarus in the utility menu of the puppy start menu, and then I was able to just run it. The only glitch is that everytime it starts up it wants to save a file called %f, but this is no problem and you can just click Ok and then proceed to using the forms designer and editors like you normally would.
The lazarus is helping a lot with some things I want to port to linux and I would recommend this above approach to anyone who wants to get the lazarus up and running quickly.
The puppy linux 4.31 system runs fast and building and working is overall better in my opinion than when using windows with lazarus, but this must be because the lazarus is a linux program.