MAC OS Lazarus compiling 'Assembler was not found, switching to
external asse..
lazarus / 15-macOS - Mac OS X

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Peter_laz · 2011-02-07 19:46

I am a newby at Lazarus but i have done a lot of programming under
turbo pascal some years agoo. I installed Lazarus under Linux and
tried to migrate a simple pascal program to MAC OS 10.6.6.
I installed the files: fpcsrc-2.2.4-intel-macosx.dmg,
lazarus-0.9.28.2-i386-macosx.dmg and fpc-2.2.4.intel-macosx.dmg.

I copied the pascal files from Linux to Mac and tried to compile. But
the result is:

 Error: Assembler as not found, switching to external assembling
 Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping

Question:
How do I install the assembler part?

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Phil · 2011-02-07 20:03

Make sure you've installed the Xcode tools from your OS X disks.

I would strongly recommend that you start with FPC 2.4.2 and the
latest 0.9.29 snapshots from Daily Snapshots at the left side of this
page. You're using a version of Lazarus that is about 1.5 years old.

Thanks.

-Phil

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Peter_laz · 2011-02-07 21:45

Thank you Phil,

I found thate latest versions but I still have to install Xcode. It is
not standard on my computer.
Let you hear about it later on this week.

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Phil · 2011-02-07 21:48

Isn't Xcode on the Snow Leopard installation disk? It's not installed
by default on a Mac since most users would have no use for it.

You can also download Xcode from Apple, but it's a rather large
download (about 3 Gb). The current version is 3.2.5.

Thanks.

-Phil