The one thing that always stops me from trying these new things with Lazarus/FPC is the missing installers for different compilers. It would be great if someone could just build the required compilers or libs and we just download and use/try them.



Technology like FPC's JVM compiler is not yet in a stable release. For now, you'll need to build the compiler yourself, but it doesn't affect your installed stable version of FPC (if that's a concern). I would suggest trying to build it and see if it isn't easier than you think.If you look at the Android SDK, it also assumes that you sort of "build" it by downloading and adding in various pieces - it doesn't come in one comprehensive install. That's an approach that is probably becoming more common, not less, so we need to adapt I suppose.Thanks.-Phil