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Open Source Free Pascal Compiler is available

On: Interbase And Kylix Details From Borland/Inprise Con

Hello,

It is with great pleasure that the Free Pascal Development Team announces
that

Version 1.00

of the Free Pascal compiler has been officially released on 12 july 2000.

The Free Pascal Compiler features:

- A Turbo Pascal and Delphi compatible compiler for the Intel processor
family, with some extensions to the Pascal and Object Pascal dialects,
such as operator overloading.
- Full debugger support with GNU GDB.
- An OS independent Run-Time Library, equivalent to the Turbo Pascal
and Delphi Run-Time Libraries, not dependent on external libraries.
- An API allowing for OS-Independent screen, keyboard and mouse
management.
- Many units, interfacing to various API's: gtk, xforms, zlib, ncurses,
sockets, X, mysql, postgresql, Interbase, paszlib, opengl, libgdb.
- A Free Component Library, containing many base classes from the
Delphi VCL.
- An IDE resembling Turbo Pascal's IDE (currently Beta quality) with
full GDB debugger support.
- More than 800 pages of documentation in Adobe PDF format, featuring
+ User's guide
+ Programmer's guide
+ Reference guide
+ reference guide for all units in the Run-Time Library
+ More than 440 complete example programs.
(Other formats include plain text, HTML and PostScript)
- Full sources to compiler, RTL, docs, packages.

More information can be found on:

http://www.freepascal.org/

Installations are available for the following platforms:

Dos - Using the go32 extender
Windows - Native Windows binary
Linux - RPM, .deb and .tar.gz packages are available.
OS/2 - Using the EMX extender.
Amiga - Based on version 0.99.5

Select your nearest download location from:

http://www.freepascal.org/sdown.html

(Beware, not all mirrors may be up-to date yet...)

or you can go directly to the FTP site:

Dos - ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/Dos
Win32 - ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/Win32
Linux - ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/Linux
OS/2 - ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/Os2
Amiga - ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/Amiga

Installation instructions can be found on the web-page.

If you experience any problems with the installation, please let
us know, so we can correct them as soon as possible.

Enjoy !

Michael,
speaking for the whole Free Pascal Development Team
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Re:Pascal/Delphi on Linux

On: Corel to Buy Inprise/Borland

You can try Free Pascal. It 99% compatible with tp7. And it has already a lot of Delphi features like classes RTTI, exceptions, ansistrings and FCL (Free Component Library).

Free Pascal can be found at http://www.freepascal.org

Two projects developping a GUI can be found at:
http://www.kcl.freepascal.org/
http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/