Distributing Lazarus - Installers

This page is for expert users who know how to use/install Lazarus and want to write an installer for a platform.

If you have trouble installing Lazarus see Installation.

Primary and secondary config files

For a multi user environment you can install default config files in the seconday config path. When a user starts the IDE, Lazarus will automatically copy these files to the primary config path. It does not copy all files; it copies each file when needed (i.e. the primary file does not exist).

Config files

All config files are created on the fly. They only contain values that differ from defaults. Note: If they contain more, then it means there is no default or you found a bug.

The easiest way to get the config files is to start an IDE, setup and install packages and then use the created configs. You should remove everything personal.

Include third party packages

If you want to use third party packages, you can put them somewhere and create a lpl file in packager/globallinks. You can put the package into the components directory or at a fixed location on the users machine.