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maaartinus
maaartinus

Reputation: 46422

What versions of lazarus and free pascal are stable and compatible

AFAIK the installation of Lazarus consists from downloading it and FPC from SVN and compiling. There's a problem(*) with the newest versions and I'd like to install a stable version. However, all I have are the SVN revision numbers and I couldn't find out what versions are stable and what work together.

(*) Our application crashes when compiled on Ubuntu 32 and run on OpenSUZE. No idea, what's exactly going on, but this is a too complicated problem for including it in this question.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 376

Answers (1)

Marco van de Voort
Marco van de Voort

Reputation: 26356

No, both projects provide releases, and these releases are the only ones formally declared stable, currently Lazarus 1.2.6 (from the 1.2 stable branch) using FPC 2.6.4 (also from stable 2.6 branch).

Lazarus mentions the prefered version of (release, stable) FPC with every release and for 1.2.6 that is 2.6.4.

Of course the status of moving trunk is sometimes more stable than other times, e.g. currently it is quite usable because a new major (FPC) branch is imminent, an event that only occurs once every 2-3 years. But there are no guarantees there, and this branch still must go through the formal release process.

Many users from emerging targets that are not supported in the stable branches often use it though.

Upvotes: 2

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