LazUpdater runs SVN Update/Checkout, Make and Strip for FPC and Lazarus.
Copyright (C) 2010  Ingo Steiniger

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Just some notes to me.

Requirements to build fpc and Lazarus:

  -svn commandline tools
   ---------------------
     Ubuntu: "sudo apt-get install subversion"
     Suse: "sudo zypper install subversion"
     Windows: Silk SVN from "http://www.sliksvn.com/en/download"
     Mac OS X: should be installed with Xcode

  -FPC
   ---
     DEP (f.e.: Ubuntu): add repository "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ximion/ppa/ubuntu karmic main"
                         install "fpc-X.Y.Z" with Packagemanager
     PRM (f.e.: Suse): install "fpc-X.Y.Z.rpm" from "http://software.opensuse.org/search"
     Windows: download and install "fpc-X.Y.Z.i386-win32.exe" from "http://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/"
     Windows x64: additionaly download an install "fpc-X.Y.Z.x86_64.exe" from "http://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/"
     Mac OS X: download and install fpc-X.Y.Z.intel-macosx.dmg from "www.hu.freepascal.org/lazarus"

  -FPC-SRC
  --------
     All: Use LazUpdater to checkout fpc sources
     All: download and unzip "fpc-X.Y.Z.source.zip" from "http://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/"
     Alternarnate on Suse: install "fpc-srcX.Y.Z.rpm" from "http://software.opensuse.org/search"
     Alternarnate on Ubuntu: install "fpc-srcX.Y.Z" with Packagemanager
     Alternate on Mac OS X: download and install fpcsrc-X.Y.Z.intel-macosx.dmg from "www.hu.freepascal.org/lazarus"



  -other dependencies:
   ---------------------
     for Lazarus-GTK (Gnome): "gdk-pixbuf-devel" and "gtk2-devel"
     for Lazarus-QT (KDE): "Qt4Pas-devel" from "Packman-Repository"
     for Windows: download binutils from "http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcbuild/trunk/install/binw32/"  to "..\fpc\X.Y.Z\bin\i386-win32"
                  and make sure "..\fpc\X.Y.Z\bin\i386-win32" is in "PATH=" for fpc/make/strip/as...
     for Mac OS X: "Xcode Tools" must be installed. Available at "http://developer.apple.com/"
     for bootstrap: a fpc binary from "ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.4.2/bootstrap/"


Usage:
  -Start the program
  (-on first start enter the path to your existing Lazarusdirectory or where you want to create it)
  (-maybe enter some svn-options like "-r24300" if you want a specified revision or change Checkout-URL for a specified version)
  (-maybe check "make ..." if you want to do make)
  (-maybe enter some make-options like "bigide bigideclean OPT="-dOldAutoSize" if you want all packages be installed)
  (-maybe check "strip" if you want to strip lazarus, lazbuild and startlazarus binaries)
  -press Start and wait