Win Path to FPC
lazarus / 34-Windows

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dbannon · 2021-06-16 08:51

I recently had occasion to build trunk Lazarus on a Windows box.  This
wiki page https://wiki.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus_on_Windows
tells me to do this (eg) -

Code: [Select]set path=c:\freepascal\bin\x86_64-win64
make bigide
However, I found that did not change the path to the desired value.  I
found doing this worked -

Code: [Select]$env:PATH="c:\freepascal\bin\x86_64-win64"
make bigide
Now, I was using Powershell on Win10 and I am particularly (and
deliberately) ignorant of windows. So I am reluctant to edit the wiki
page unless you Windows people confirm my experience.

So, confirm away please .....

Davo

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marcov · 2021-06-16 09:00

Most wiki will be for cmd.exe, which was the default Windows NT shell
for 25 years.

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dbannon · 2021-06-16 09:27

Yep, and maybe a batch file still uses cmd.exe even under Powershell ?

I just noticed, while fixing some other things that the instructions
that mislead me do mention making a batch file. Seems an unnecessary
complication to me ...

Davo