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New to CodeTyphon but read a thread here about someone having trouble installing.

The advice was to remove any pre-existing FPC and Lazarus on the machine.
Is that really necessary?
I have a development VM with XP-Pro and FPC 2.4.2 installed.
I have retrieved Lazarus sources from SVN, both trunk and fixes_0_9_30 branch and built these just fine.
Do I really have to remove them?

My plan is to develop an application using RS232 communications which will finally be targeted at an embedded system running ARM-Linux.
The cross-compile functionality is what brought me here after asking on the Lazarus list.
It looks like CodeTyphon has all I need for the cross-compile, but I still would like also to have Lazarus from SVN for other purposes.

Is this possible?

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Now I went ahead and extracted the zipfile to the root of my C-drive so it created the CodeTyphon directory with everything inside.
Then I started the batch file setup.bat and selected mode 7.
This started a lot of activity in a command window, which went on and on.
I noted that this batch file somehow used my already existing FPC 2.4.2 installation, which I think it should not do.
Anyway I went off to have dinner and meanwhile the script finished, but without leaving the window visible so one could see the end result.

Now I started looking for any sign of a new Lazarus executable but I found nothing.
In the C:\lazarus dir there are only various text files and no executable file at all. In normal lazarus systems the lazarus.exe file should reside here, but it does not.

What should I do now?

TIA
BosseB

I am not really an expert in Lazarus, but I think there are system variables and settings that do not allow to have two or more Lazarus installations at the same time. You can install virtualbox or VmWare player, and install different Lazarus versions in one or more virtual machines.

Well, in my regular environment I am using multiple installations of lazarus from different snapshots from SVN.
The trick here is to modify the shortcut that starts lazarus to include a command line switch defining the location of the configuration folder.
Something like:
c:\programs\lazarus\lazarus.exe --pcp=C:\programs\lazarus\config

This works fine except for CodeTyphon lazarus....

Does anyone here know where CodeTyphon Lazarus stores the user settings?

I am actually using two Lazarus installations: one from CodeTyphon and another from daily snapshot . Since those are on different partitions the CodeTyphon doesn't have a problem with it.

Sir, my suggestion is to remove
old FPC and Lazarus installations...

and try to build CodeTyphon