Making Executable for my Lazarus Project
lazarus / 62-General

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odvesims · 2015-08-11 21:41

Hey There!

I'm working on a Lazarus project and I want to make some sort of .exe
file that I can use to install such project in a different machine. I
tried with the "publish" option in the Lazarus IDE but that doesn't
actually do what I was hoping (Thought it'd be similar to Visual
Studio's publish). Is there a way to pack all my project modules and
make a .exe file that i can use to install it everywherelse? How does
Lazarus deals with this?

Thanks in advance,

Oscar

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derek.john.evans · 2015-08-11 21:53

http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php

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odvesims · 2015-08-12 13:12

Thanks derek, that worked beautifully! Now, I'm wondering how to allow
my application to be installed in Linux distribution OS...

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derek.john.evans · 2015-08-12 13:16

Cool, yea, I've loved InnoSetup for years. Lazarus uses it for the
Win32 installer.

For Linux, look into creating Debian or RPM packages. Ive never done
that, but it looks like there are a number of GUI front ends to help

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Basile B. · 2015-08-12 15:30

This would be great if someone could publish a wiki page about how to
make DEB or RPM. A few weeks ago i've managed to make a RPM but I was
very disapointed to see that the sources are deleted after each
construction of the package.

But this has to be done since on nix all the executables stand in the
same folder there's always a risk that a package provides the same
file(s). Consequences can be dramatic.

I've followed this http://stackoverflow.com/a/18684749

About the GUI editors take care. I remember that i installed one made
with mono but the software was not running after setup. You see the
thing: the guy makes a RPM to distribute a software that's used to
make RPM. But his RPM fail to setup the soft correctly...