Compiling GearHead: the Easy Way

[Daemonward]

Since newer versions of FreePascal no longer require JEDI-SDL to compile GearHead, I'm trying to update and improve the GearHead Compiling Guide: http://gearheadrpg.com/wiki/index.php?title=Guides:How_to_compile_GearHead

Take a look, give it a try, and make a few edits of you own.

[Erathoniel]

I can compile GH1 ASCII no issue, but I'm having issues with GH2. I'm using the GUI of the program, and I can't just path to the directory and set it up for -dASCII. Here's how it looks at a successful ASCII compile of GH1. (Hosted on wiki as example, if nobody minds. It can't make the thumbnail, though, so it's not up yet).
http://gearheadrpg.com/wiki/images/3/3b/Fpcguighasciicomp.png
What am I doing wrong?

EDIT: Figured it out. It is mandatory to set the directory under the file menu to the actual directory of all the files!

EDIT2: Tutorial now on wiki for IDE compiling.

[Frumple]

I don't even remember exactly what I did to pull it off, but there was some infuriatingly simple method of compiling (Not a single command line involved!) the base SDL version under XP; iirc, it was something along assembling all the files in the right folder then just opening the .pas file with... whatever the compiler program was. I raged about it for a few lines a bit back. Maybe the specifics to that can be included? Still don't really understand how compilation works, bleh, and I'm bollocks with wiki software, so...