Welcome to the new Friends-of-FPC!

Here you can find all kinds of information about the FreePascal Compiler. We have many tutorials and howtos as well as a selection of tools to help you with your programming. We also have some example codes for you. And if you want to contribute some information/ sources/ tools yourself you can do so.
Also we have finally relaunched the FoFPC forum. It's your chance for some Q&A about everything FreePascal.

Lazarus - by Friends-of-FPC

"Do I have to say anything about Lazarus at all?" That question nagged me a little. But there may be many newcomers to FPC that don't know Lazarus, so here it goes.

Lazarus is to FPC what Visual Studio is to the MS C++ Compiler. It is a very powerfull IDE, but it doesn't stop there. It is also a class library for FPC that tries to give the users Delphi-like power. You get forms, you get Object Inspectors, of course an integrated debugger, everything is specially crafted around the FreePascal Compiler. And a really neat thing is that it is platfom independant. Not only the compiler but also your executables will be, if you choose so.

So who needs Lazarus? People who want a full blown RAD IDE. Everybody who does something with GUIs and doesn't want to use the GUI APIs directly should use it. Is it suitable for beginners? I guess. There are some drawbacks as Lazarus is still in development, but it is worth a try.

Lazarus Homepage

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