I followed your instructions on my Breezy X86_64 Ubuntu install and it all worked great until I tried to build the source using: make build

It fails with this error:

/opt/fpc/bin/ppcx64 -Ur -Ur -Xs -n -Fi../inc -Fi../x86_64 -Fi../unix -Fix86_64 -FE. -FU/opt/fpc/rtl/units/x86_64-linux -dx86_64 -dRELEASE ../unix/cthreads.pp
cthreads.pp(600,30) Error: Incompatible types: got "<address of function(Pointer, QWord, TThreadFunc, Pointer, LongWord,var LongInt):LongInt;Register>" expected "<procedure variable type of function(Pointer, LongWord, TThreadFunc, Pointer, LongWord,var Lo
cthreads.pp(646) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping
cthreads.pp(646) Error: Compilation aborted

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a google search leads to this bug posting:

http://www.freepascal.org/bugs/showrec.php3?ID=4527

I am unable to get past this problem at this time but thanks for the info on the rest!