@asbzone, let's see ... I live in a world of assumptions, so assumed that the 32-64 install would install whichever the host OS was. So I downloaded and installed lazarus-1.8.4-fpc-3.0.4-win32 which just blows up; after your question, I uninstalled the 32 bit and installed lazarus-1.8.4-fpc-3.0.4-win64 which so far has managed to run the stupid little sample program about 6 times without a hiccup.
re: Path - in the old days, I'd copy the path, make any changes to it and change it on the fly. Of course since I was working mostly at DOS level it hung through. Somewhere around XP changes to the path worked only for the dos box in which the change was made. (( Please don't start on me about the whole dos thing again, please
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I invoke Lazarus from the desktop icon, I haven't looked at it so I couldn't have said what if any parameters were passed. But since you asked, the command is simply "C:\Lazarus\lazarus" (( and yes, I have problems with Pascal and single quotes! ))
Since I'm running on a 64 bit OS (Win 10 build 17134) and a 32 bit program should work and doesn't where the 64 bit does I have to question whether it's a problem with my setup or some minor glitch in the 32 bit program that I'm triggering.
and ... g'night all //al