Installing Lazarus via MacPorts

[Dreihirn]

Good news for Installing Lazarus 4.8 on a macOS 14 Sonoma Intel Mac x86_64 environment.

There is a current port for Lazarus 4.8 available from the MacPorts project.  This may help not only on other older Mac OS X / macOS environments too, I guess.

• https://www.macports.org/install.php - Installing MacPorts
• https://ports.macports.org/port/lazarus/ - Installing the lazarus port with MacPorts
• https://guide.macports.org/ - MacPorts Guide
• https://www.macports.org/ - The MacPorts project

This is intended for a system-wide install and thus should be managed from an Administrator account. To install lazarus, paste this into the macOS Terminal after installing MacPorts:

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1. sudo port install lazarus

Done.

Lazarus should be ready to run and can be enjoyed from any account afterwards. One will find the Lazarus app via /Applications/MacPorts/lazarus.app as GUI appropriate for Mac OS X / macOS.

Currently, this installs at least the following:

• fpc @3.2.2_4
• fpc-sources @3.2.2_0
• lazarus @4.8-0_0+cocoa

Including several FPC and Lazarus documentation accessible via lhelp and the Lazarus IDE.

Further information one might find helpful:

• https://support.apple.com/en-euro/guide/terminal/apd5b0b6259-a7d4-4435-947d-0dff528912ba/2.14/mac/14.0 - Enter administrator commands in Terminal on Mac
• https://support.apple.com/en-euro/guide/terminal/welcome/2.14/mac/14.0 - Terminal User Guide for macOS Sonoma (and other)
• https://developer.apple.com/documentation/os/reading-unix-manual-pages - Use the Terminal app to read the documentation for low-level UNIX tools and APIs.

Hope this helps as it did help me.