User:Dieselnutjob/Pinebook Pro/Freepascal and Lazarus IDE on Manjaro
How to install Freepascal FPC 3.20
Install binutils
sudo pacman -Syu binutils
Download fpc from here https://www.freepascal.org/down/aarch64/linux-hungary.html
Unpack and install
tar -xf fpc-3.2.0.aarch64-linux.tar cd fpc-3.2.0.aarch64-linux sudo sh install.sh
Test it:-
Use a test editor to create helloworld.pas
Program helloworld;
begin
writeln ('Hello world');
end.
Compile and run it
fpc helloworld.pas Free Pascal Compiler version 3.2.0 [2020/06/05] for aarch64 Copyright (c) 1993-2020 by Florian Klaempfl and others Target OS: Linux for AArch64 Compiling helloworld.pas Assembling helloworld Linking helloworld 4 lines compiled, 0.5 sec
./helloworld Hello world
How to compile Lazarus
Install necessary Manjaro packages
sudo pacman -Syu make subversion qt5pas
Download Lazarus source
cd ~ mkdir fpc cd fpc svn co https://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/trunk lazarus cd lazarus make LCL_PLATFORM=qt5
Download fpc-3.2.0.source.tar.gz from https://www.freepascal.org/down/source/sources.html and unpack the fpc src in some convenient folder (I used ~/fpc/fpc-3.2.0)
Run it
cd ~/fpc/lazarus ./startlazarus
touch ~/.local/share/applications/lazarus.desktop
Edit the file
kate ~/.local/share/applications/lazarus.desktop
Paste in this code
[Desktop Entry] Categories=Development; Comment=IDE Exec=~/fpc/lazarus/startlazarus %f GenericName=IDE Icon=lazarus-icon InitialPreference=9 MimeType=text/plain; Name=Lazarus Path= StartupNotify=true Terminal=false TerminalOptions= Type=Application X-DBUS-ServiceName= X-DBUS-StartupType= X-KDE-HasTempFileOption=true X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false X-KDE-Username=
Save the file
Create a 48x48 xpm format icon and save it to /usr/share/pixmaps/lazarus-icon.xpm or you can download mine from http://pscan.uk/images/lazarus-icon.xpm
Original source of information https://forum.manjaro.org/t/how-to-install-fpc-and-lazarus-on-pinebook-pro-arm-64-bit/152872
Mirror of this article https://wiki.freepascal.org/Install_on_aarch64_Arch_or_Manjaro