Fpcupdeluxe

[Philippe1]

Hi from France, sorry to ask a trivial question: 
I'm not a top-level Pascal coder, but I had to build an application with Lazarus 3.6, which works fine. I have been asked to make it run on Android, so I naturally turned to fpcupdeluxe, which is probably the best choice. 

My question is: will I be able to have both Lazarus 3.6 and the future version of fpcupdeluxe for Lazarus 3.6 installed on my PC simultaneously? 

I have already tested fpcupdeluxe, but of course, my Lazarus 3.6 code didn’t work as it is. I plan to wait for the future version.
Also, what is the proper way to uninstall fpcupdeluxe? Should I simply delete the folder? 
Best regards
Happy holidays if any
Philippe

[DonAlfredo]

You only have to delete the whole install-directory, and nothing is left of your install.
Followed by a removal of the desktop shortcut.
That's it.

[folkeu08]

Hi DonAlfredo,
Add you the install for Lazarus 3.8 or are you waiting for the release of 4 to do a total release forgetting 3.8 for its bug fix?
thanks
François

[DonAlfredo]

You might try to add this into fpcup.ini :

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1. [ALIASlazTAG]
2. stable.gitlab=lazarus_3_8
3. 3.8.gitlab=lazarus_3_8
4. 3.6.gitlab=lazarus_3_6
5. ....

[440bx]

@DonAlfredo,

Is it possible to do something similar to use FPCUPDELUXE to install v4.0RC2 ?  if yes, what are the additional lines required ?

Thank you.

[JD]

Hi there everyone,

Is there a way to use fpcupdeluxe to update my existing Lazarus installation (also done with fpcupdeluxe) without breaking everything?

I tried something about a year ago and it made my Lazarus installation unusable. Because of that, I tend to make a fresh Lazarus installation every time a new version comes out and at the moment, I have versions from 2.6 to 3.4. I don't want to continue doing it this way.

Thanks for your kind assistance.

JD

[dsiders]

Is there a way to use fpcupdeluxe to update my existing Lazarus installation (also done with fpcupdeluxe) without breaking everything?

I tried something about a year ago and it made my Lazarus installation unusable. Because of that, I tend to make a fresh Lazarus installation every time a new version comes out and at the moment, I have versions from 2.6 to 3.4. I don't want to continue doing it this way.

Every fpcupdeluxe installation is a clone of a Git repository. You can easily checkout or switch to any branch or tag in that directory. I do it all the time to switch between trunk and one of the fixes branches.

The problem is with the primary configuration path and the start link that fpcupdeluxe uses to launch lazarus using the pcp. Changes between versions could trash the settings in the pcp. If you change the folder that lazarus.cfg points to BEFORE running the new version, the problem can probably be avoided.

I work on the assumption that disk space is cheap. So I always do the separate installs (for releases) that you're trying to avoid.

Just my experience...