PasDoc may be compiled with
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FPC
The preferred FreePascal version should always be the latest stable FPC release. Right now compiling with FPC 2.0.0, 2.0.2 and 2.0.4 is supported.
Compile by simple make in top level sources directory.
You must use GNU make. Under Linux this is the standard make, under Windows it is included with FPC installation (you can also get it with MinGW or Cygwin), under FreeBSD it's called gmake.
Lazarus
Lazarus version required is 0.9.12 or later.
You can install pasdoc components by installing source/packages/lazarus/pasdoc_package.lpk. This package is used by console pasdoc and by pasdoc_gui.
You can compile console pasdoc from Lazarus by compiling source/console/pasdoc.lpi.
You can compile pasdoc_gui from Lazarus by compiling source/gui/pasdoc_gui.lpi.
FPC < 2.0.0
Compatibility with FPC 1.0.10 was dropped after pasdoc 0.9.0 release. If you must compile with FPC 1.0.10, you should use pasdoc 0.9.0 sources, later sources will not compile with FPC 1.0.10. For reasoning, browse MailingList archives for a thread "Drop compatibility with Delphi 5 and FPC 1.0.10 ?" around 2005-06-12.
Compatibility with FPC 1.9.x was dropped at some point too. Although it can compile with FPC >= 1.9.6, don't count on it, and you're well adviced to upgrade to FPC 2.0.x.
Kylix 3
Compiling from the IDE
The unit output path is set to the 'lib' subdirectory which must be created manually. This is to reduce clutter.
The reason why the project file does not contain a list of all units including full filenames is that older versions of Delphi do not support a forward slash in paths while Kylix does not support backslashes. Sorry, you will have to live with that.
Do not use the "..." button to add directories to the search path, it will add absolute paths. Use relative paths instead.
Compiling using the Makefile
You can compile using the command make build-delphi-linux-x86
Older Kylix versions
It is unknown whether the code compiles with older Kylix versions. Please report if you have any info.
Delphi
Supported Delphi versions are 5-7 and 2005.
Compiling from the IDE
The reason why the project file does not contain a list of all units including full filenames is that older versions of Delphi do not support a forward slash in paths while Kylix does not support backslashes. Sorry, you will have to live with that.
Compiling using the Makefile
You can compile using the command make build-delphi-win32
Delphi 5 specific notes
You must do one specific thing to compile pasdoc with Delphi 5:
Add "..\component\strutils" to your units search path.
Using FastMM memory manager
You can speed up pasdoc a little (about 17%) by using FastMM memory manager. Just download FastMM, add it to your Delphi units path, and define symbol USE_FASTMM when compiling.
See also: release making
Compiling, testing and other things related to release making are described on this page: ReleaseMaking.