Delphi & Lazarus both installed

Question

Just a quick question for those of you that know. Is it possible to have both Delphi (ver 7) and Lazarus installed at the same time. I want to make sure the Lazarus install will not interfere with my current Delphi install in ANY WAY. I would have asked this on the Lazarus fourms but thought I would get quicker reply here.

Anyway if you have both Delphi & Lazarus installed please tell me any problems you have encountered (if any) thanks.

Chris

Answer 1

Lazarus does not interfere with any version of Delphi, they can live along very happily.

Answer 2

The only interference is for commandline building, both projects have a make.exe file which are not the same.

This is easily solvable by not adding FPC to the path (removing it via control-panel system), and do a

set PATH=c:\fpc\2.5.1\bin\i386-win32;%PATH%

or wherever you installed as first line in your batch files.

I generally don't bother, but a previous employer we did a lot of cmdline building with dcc, and then it matters.

File associations are another, but already named. (but not such a big problem since the project extensions vary (.dpr vs .lpr, .dproj vs .lpi) )

Btw: Other development products (cygwin,mingw, and maybe even VS) have their own respective make.exe files and the same kind of problems.