Lazarus Portable 0.9.27 Beta Test 5.2

thinks for your share~

what you are doing is posting multiple times about this in different nodes and now this. what you are doing is looked down upon and considered as self promotion now. I suggest you stop posting about this now and stick to this topic which should be moved to the Beta Testing forum

would be some indication of what the heck Lazarus is. Even your link just goes to "download Lazarus". You have to follow another link and scroll down a bunch of messages to discover that it is an IDE for programming in Pascal.

Kinda old school, ain't it?

I don't think self-promotion should be a dirty word. Cross posting, OTOH, is generally considered unacceptable.

Much like LOL cats.

-----Paul-----

Guys,

Juan has given many hours of his time to solve the Lazarus issue for all of us. This is no small thing. At the risk of being flamed - how about we all lighten up a bit. I for one think he has advanced the cause of PortableApps considerably by giving us an outstanding development environment with Lazarus Portable. Fair go!

Regards,

Jaun,

Love your work. In the latest Lazarus Portable version - several path options in the ENVIRONMENT|OPTIONS|FILES screen are not set initially in a fresh "clean" install. ie: FPC Source Directory path was blank. Also the MODULE path in ENVIRONMENT|CODE TEMPLATES was also initially blank. Not a show stopper, but it might cause problems for a new user, as these various file paths needed to be set manually. If I recall correctly, they were set properly "out of the box" with your first Lazarus version. Try out an install on a new, clean system to duplicate the problem. I have observed it when running for the first time on two different computers now. I can give you a more complete description should you be unable to duplicate the problem.

Regards,

Hey jammiii,

I appreciate your work on this. To keep things neat and clean around here, and easier for other users, can you please format your topic to look similar to this one?

Thanks very much

Juan,

Yes, I fell into the trap of thinking an older version was the current one. Don't know how, but have downloaded a fresh copy, and found it was a different file size than the (older) one I had. All is good now.

Regards,

Hi Juan,

Thanks for this, I've been trying to portablize Lazarus myself without much luck.

Have you looked into UPX compressing the files to make it a smaller download?

Juan,

I have also seen the path errors described by Wences in Lazarus beta 4. His description is accurate.
In addition, the dual instance problem is new to beta 4. The addition of the help files is extremely helpful. Bring on beta 5, and keep on with your enthusiasm for this good development environment.

Regards,

Juan,

I have downloaded and installed Lazarus beta 5 onto a clean system. All appears to be fine with the various directory paths now. I will test more extensively over the next few days. I guess that this turned out to be a bigger job than originally planned, but it looks very good. Thank you again for doing this. I hope you update from time to time as the versions change.

Regards,

I've been watching this from the sidelines and good to hear your first clean report. Congratulations mate

Hope to hear some more good reports from the other devs soon.

Sidenote: If Lazarus is a Delphi clone does that mean it could be used by John to recreate the PortableApps.com Platform? Would save a lot of $$$ if so. Would of course push the 2.0 release back somewhat but I for one think it would be well worth it

Hi, Jammiii,
I've finally downloaded and installed the beta 5 and tested it both at home and at the office and it seems to be OK, though I haven't got around to compile anything more than a "Hello, world" for the time being.

Below is a regshot from a clean system. Looks good to me. Can one of the pros please confirm. Cheers

Regshot 1.8.2
Comments:
Datetime:2009/3/14 14:40:14  ,  2009/3/14 14:41:51
Computer:TOWER_7200 , TOWER_7200
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Values added:2
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HKU\S-1-5-21-796845957-789336058-839522115-500\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\F:\PortableApps\LazarusPortable\LazarusPortable.exe: "Lazarus 0.9.27 Suite Portable"
HKU\S-1-5-21-796845957-789336058-839522115-500\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ShellNoRoam\MUICache\F:\PortableApps\LazarusPortable\App\lazarus\lazarus.exe: "lazarus"

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Values modified:4
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HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG\Seed: A1 7B 82 BD 82 9B AE FA AF 0D 6E 00 2F 1F 23 90 6A 8D 6D ED A9 BA F7 00 7D 83 D6 85 EA 47 4D EB 37 5A 14 6A E6 BA 6B CB 3E F8 1E A8 05 D8 86 99 E3 42 98 04 1F B9 A6 A6 EC 98 D1 F5 84 89 4D 04 B5 03 FC DA A4 62 FF 0D EB EE 02 2C 8D E2 1F 1A
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Cryptography\RNG\Seed: 04 56 FE C4 7B 6D 7C 00 DA 42 4E 60 01 17 23 7C FC F0 15 74 E6 65 88 BC 70 24 EE 72 84 B9 8A 86 F5 27 6B 08 37 E1 30 F1 1B BD 91 56 4F BC 59 FC 23 A5 1E 6B C9 E1 E1 2E 22 DB BC 74 17 5E 62 A6 74 47 1A 7B 71 5E DD 8B F6 AE 88 A8 04 E5 4C 00
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Prefetcher\TracesProcessed: 0x000000A7
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Prefetcher\TracesProcessed: 0x000000B1
HKU\S-1-5-21-796845957-789336058-839522115-500\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\Local AppData: "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data"
HKU\S-1-5-21-796845957-789336058-839522115-500\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\Local AppData: "F:\PortableApps\LazarusPortable\Data\Settings\Local Settings\Application Data"
HKU\S-1-5-21-796845957-789336058-839522115-500\SessionInformation\ProgramCount: 0x00000003
HKU\S-1-5-21-796845957-789336058-839522115-500\SessionInformation\ProgramCount: 0x00000001

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Files [attributes?] modified:2
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C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\ntuser.dat.LOG
C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\software.LOG

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Total changes:8
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Juan,

I have downloaded Lazarus 5.1, and briefly given it a run. All looks good with this release. It worked fine straight out of the box! As usual, thank you!

Regards,