Zeoslib Portal

First the intructions for Linux:
*under Linux you need to install at least FPC 2.0.1 and the latest nightly snapshot of Lazarus (0.9.9)), the easyest way to do this is to download FPC rpms from:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... p_id=89339
Download fpc-2.0.0-0.i586.rpm
Download fpcsrc-2.0.0-0.i386.rpm
and install them according to your linux distro
(for rpm distro use
rpm -Uvh fpc-XXX.rpm )
(change fpc-XXX.deb for the real name of the .rpm files)

(for Ubuntu I type in console at the rpms directory:
alien fpc*
this turns them into .deb packages at your "home" directory
and can be from console installed with:
dpkg -i fpc-XXX.deb)
(change fpc-XXX.deb for the real name of the .deb files created by the "alien" command from the original .rpms)

go to /usr/lib/fpc/2.0.0/
type in console:
sh ./samplecfg /usr/lib/fpc/2.0.0 etc/
that will create the file fpc.cfg in /etc/

***Now to update to FPC 2.0.1***

then go to:
ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/snapsh ... 386-linux/
Download fpc-2.0.1.i386-linux.tar.gz
and overwrite with its contents the bin lib and share folders in your /usr/ directory
*in usr/lib/fpc/ you have now a /2.0.0/ and /2.0.1/ directories... take everything inside the 2.0.1 directory and overwrite it inside the 2.0.0 directory

*go to ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/snapshot/v20/source/
and download fpc.zip
overwrite with its contents the /usr/share/fpcsrc/ directory

*from any of your 2.0.0 or 2.0.1 directories take the new "ppc386" (this is a "ppc386" that came with the file you downloaded from the FPC ftp in the file "fpc-2.0.1.i386-linux.tar.gz") and overwrite it on the /usr/bin/ directory
*now go to /usr/share/fpcsrc/ and do a "make all" from console
(this will remake everything with the new "ppc386")

***Lazarus Nightly Build***
go to http://www.ca.freepascal.org/Lazarus/
and download lazarus-0.9.9-20050821-src.tar.bz2
unzip it wherever you want your lazarus to be (for example /home/myusername/lazarus)
go to your lazarus directory and type in the console:
make all
(this will make lazarus with the latest "ppc386" and it will work with FPC 2.0.1)
***
now you have the latest lazarus and the latest FPC and you can install Zeosdbo rework from /packages/lazarus:
(in this order)
*compile zcore.lpk
*compile zparsesql.lpk
*compile zplain.lpk
*compile zdbc.lpk
*compile zcomponent.lpk***install zcomponent.lpk

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*****Our friend silvio also pointed out that if you get error when compiling zcomponent.lpk (an override error that occurs with FPC 2.0.0) you can change the "override" for "overload"
I haven't tried this yet personally but in theory you could install zeos with FPC stable 2.0.0 and Lazarus stable 0.98 directly from the rpms found in:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... p_id=89339
downloading the two rpms for FPC and for Lazarus you need to download:
Download lazarus-0.9.8-fpc_2.0.0_0.i386.rpm
and then install them from the rpms or convert them to .deb first with "alien" for a debian based linux, and then install them*****

Now the win32 instructions:
under win32 you can use FPC 2.0.0, just downlad it from the FPC site at:
http://www.freepascal.org/download.html
after installing it you need to install a nightly build of lazarus from:
http://www.ca.freepascal.org/Lazarus/
then from the package\lazarus directory from your zeosdbo_rework, install in thos order:
*compile zcore.lpk
*compile zparsesql.lpk
*compile zplain.lpk
*compile zdbc.lpk
*compile zcomponent.lpk***install zcomponent.lpk
now you have zeos working under lazarus/win32
*****Our friend silvio also pointed out that if you get error when compiling zcomponent.lpk (an override error that occurs with FPC 2.0.0) you can change the "override" for "overload"
I haven't tried this yet personally but in theory you could install zeos with FPC stable 2.0.0 and Lazarus stable 0.98 directly from the win32 installer:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... p_id=89339
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