Error during installation

[Heinz]

https://pastebin.com/hLyAtrnL

There's the log

[KodeZwerg]

Can you repeat by not using windows protected folders?
Exemplary c:\freepascal\
Maybe running with admin rights inside windows protected folders work too, untested.

[TRon]

First of all you should avoid installing Free Pascal/Lazarus in a directory with a whitespace character in it.

Secondly, since both Free Pascal and Lazarus requires to update itself (installing packages/cross compilers) you do need write access in the directory to which you install.

Last, the FPCDeluxe error reads:

Makefile:29: *** You need the GNU utils package to use this Makefile.  Stop.

I assume this refers to the GNU Binutils, and those should be installed. I do not know if FPCDeluxe does that automatically for you and in case it doesn't then you would need to do that manually.

Alas, I am not familiar with FPCDeluxe so perhaps someone more knowledgeable on the subject is able to chime in.

[af0815]

On windows fpcupdeluxe should be able to download all the missing parts. But you must install fpcupdeluxe and fpc/lazarus in a directory without spaces or special characters and there you must have all rigths to create directoies and place files. According the notes from KodeZwerg and TRon. The background - most of the used tools in the build chain can handle spaces in the directoryname, but not all.

This is not special to fpcupdeluxe/fpc/lazarus, but if you install other IDE or build enviroments you have the same issue. This is the reason such tool want a own directory in your root.   
 

[KodeZwerg]

I do not know if FPCDeluxe does that automatically for you

It does

But you must install fpcupdeluxe

Than I might did it wrong all the time.
On my system the fpcupdeluxe (64bit) app is inside my download folder, from there I run it and let install/update my fpc/lazarus into its own folder (c:\tools\freepascal\)

[TRon]

Thank you af0815 and KodeZwerg for the confirmation as I wasn't sure.

[howardpc]

Why does the forum's timing code produce nonsenses such as this?

[TRon]

@howardpc:
 

see also https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,62368.msg471636.html#msg471636

On a completely other unrelated note: You tagline must be one of the best I've ever seen. The first time I noticed it I thought I perhaps consumed something with some strong intoxicating ingredient but got that sorted out pretty quickly. But darn, I keep being distracted by it every time I comes across it 

And it still does...

[Heinz]

It works. Thanks