Lazarus IDE 1.8.4 is released with Free Pascal compiler 3.0.4

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25 points·mariuz··6 comments

Always exciting to see how active this community is. But I've tried several times to install and use it, and it's really just too much hassle. If you're using a modern macOS you're most likely not going to be able to get debugging to work, you'll get constant prompts about "Not being optimised for this mac" and the installation experiance is a pain.

Not to knock the great work that has obviously gone into this project, but in my personal opinion if you use a mac for your main workstation, this project a no go.

Congratulations! Lazarus is a black horse in cross-platform GUI development.

Interesting, the only other comment right now (turblety's) says otherwise.

I haven't taken a look at Lazarus in a million years, mind elaborating on the cross platform-ness as it is today?

Just a note: turblety's comment does not make any allegations to the effect that you can't /run/ compiled lazarus apps on macs, just that it seems hard to set up a lazarus dev environment on that platform.

I can verify turblety's comment. I've tried multiple times to get Lazarus working on OS X, and the closest I've gotten to getting it working was the IDE to actually show up, but crash trying to get the Hello World example to compile and run.

Ah well. That sadly makes it uninteresting for me :(

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