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Lazarus Portable

Submitted by LuckyLuke on February 24, 2008 - 3:58pm

I made my own Lazarus Portable Launcher and now I want to share it.
Lazarus is an emulation of Delphi. The program comes with an installation but it doesn't need one.

Move my little starter program into the lazarus directory.

Now instead of starting lazarus with "startlazarus.exe" use my program and move the folder whereever you like (for example usb-stick).

Just tested on Windows XP!!
Give me some feedback

http://www.fileshost.com/en/file/35694/PortableLazarus-Launcher-zip.html

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Lazarus portable

pam - July 31, 2008 - 2:22pm

I have loaded and used startlazarus.exe
It works well with my USB key.
I have tested it on several applications with success.
I'll try it on differents PC and configurations
Thank's very much for this program.

Portable Lazarus

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jammiii (Homepage) - February 10, 2009 - 4:46pm

Your link is not working. In case anyone is interested, we have an app that also accomplishes this at http://www.eightminds.com/archives/22

We will make a portableapps installer very shortly since we use this utility extensively. Great job with this tool portableapps.com!

Thanks,
Juan Melendez, Eightminds.com

Juan A Melendez

Lazarus Portable

Kim_Wood - February 11, 2009 - 4:08am

Thanks Juan,

Tried out your Lazarus launcher - it works fine. Now, how about having a go at the PortableApps format version? I really like the Lazarus Pascal environment, and it looks like you have nailed this often requested app. It's great to see the ingenuity of contributors to this web site. Well done.

Kim

Lazarus Portable (PortableApps version)

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jammiii (Homepage) - February 11, 2009 - 7:14am

Hello Kim,

I will absolutely modify and enhance the application for PortableApps. I hope to have it ready for the weekend if nothing unforeseen should interrupt me.

Thanks for the feedback!

Juan Melendez, Eightminds.com

Juan A Melendez

Lazarus for PortableApps COMPLETE

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jammiii (Homepage) - February 14, 2009 - 7:01pm

As promised, I have completed a version of Lazarus for PortableApps! Whew! Please send me feedback if you run into any issues. This is my first go at the PortableApps packaging system. I have tested on four of our own systems with no issue.

Download here... http://www.eightminds.com/archives/23

Cheers!
Juan A Melendez, Eightminds.com

Juan A Melendez

Looks good, but...

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muskrat (Homepage) - February 17, 2009 - 9:12am

Application left behind a set of folders on a 'clean' machine after closing application.

:EDIT:
SysInfo:
Windows 2000 SP4, Admin user

Folders added:2 
C:\Documents and Settings\tcarlson\Local Settings\Application Data\lazarus
C:\Documents and Settings\tcarlson\Local Settings\Application Data\lazarus\projectsessions

Files added:7 
C:\Documents and Settings\tcarlson\Local Settings\Application Data\lazarus\compilertest.pas
C:\Documents and Settings\tcarlson\Local Settings\Application Data\lazarus\editoroptions.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\tcarlson\Local Settings\Application Data\lazarus\environmentoptions.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\tcarlson\Local Settings\Application Data\lazarus\includelinks.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\tcarlson\Local Settings\Application Data\lazarus\inputhistory.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\tcarlson\Local Settings\Application Data\lazarus\lazarus.dci
C:\Documents and Settings\tcarlson\Local Settings\Application Data\lazarus\packagefiles.xml

/s/ BTW I'm a Quality Assurance Analyst by trade... Eye-wink

Resolved

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jammiii (Homepage) - February 23, 2009 - 6:10pm

Hi Muskrat,

This has been resolved with the current version. Just redownload, remove the current version, and install.

Juan A Melendez

You are a Legend!

Kim_Wood - February 14, 2009 - 9:50pm

Downloaded - and I will have a good go at it. There are some guru's here that will go through your packaging to find any issues. I am really just interested in the functionality. Thank you very much for putting the effort into this. I am sure that this will become one of the very popular apps here. Welcome aboard.

LATER: Works well. I assume the launcher was developed in the Lazarus environment? There is a healthy bias towards NSIS scripting to create the portability in this forum. You might get a question or two on why not NSIS. IMHO it would not be difficult for one of the NSIS experts to replicate your work in NSIS. The issues are all obvious in the code. However, I like what you have done with this app, as it is a very pure thing to use the underlying app itself to create the portable wrapper. It is nice to see Lazarus in the among the PortableApps offerings - we were missing a strong programming/IDE environment.

Regards,

Kim

Thanks

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jammiii (Homepage) - February 14, 2009 - 9:59pm

Hi Kim,

Yes, the underlying app was written with Lazarus. I didn't use NSIS this go because quite simply... I haven't read the documentation on it yet lol. I will rewrite with NSIS and update by next weekend. I also want to include different versions. (64-bit, 0.9.26, etc)

I'm sure something may crawl out of the woodwork (bug?) but I have tested as well as I could during the course of the week. (compiler, debugger, etc)

Thanks for the kind words Kim!

Juan A Melendez, Eightminds.com

PS
Anything else you'd like to see ported? Smiling

Juan A Melendez

Picasa 3

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horusofoz - February 15, 2009 - 1:20am

A portable launcher for Picasa 3 would be HUGELY appreciated. Due to the closed-source nature of the program PA.com can only host a launcher (for now). However if you could make a portable launcher of Picasa it could be hosted here and I for one (And the countless other image/photograph enthusiasts) would be hugely appreciative.

Hope you take it up.

Live to learn. Learn to live. - JWSII

You App Request

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jammiii (Homepage) - February 15, 2009 - 2:42am

Picasa 3 it is...

I will get to it in the morning.

Juan

Juan A Melendez

Thank you

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horusofoz - February 15, 2009 - 5:30am

If you can create a launcher, you can't include the the base app for legal reasons, I would be grateful.

I hope you stick around and catch the PA bug Smiling

EDIT: Don't mean to be picky but if possible please put it in the PAF format (It has it's advantages). Thanks again:-)

Live to learn. Learn to live. - JWSII

Picasa

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jammiii (Homepage) - February 15, 2009 - 7:30am

I understand. I'll try to get you something testable by tonight.

Juan A Melendez

Picasa3 Launcher for PortableApps

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jammiii (Homepage) - February 15, 2009 - 3:59pm

Here's the first testable version of Picasa3 (Launcher) for PortableApps.
http://www.eightminds.com/archives/24

Let me know how it goes.

Regards,
Juan

Juan A Melendez

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