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.

Getting started with FPC - Chapter 3 - by Delax

Additional Information

Again (as it can't be said enough) RTFM! Please read the manual. I know it is not THAT interesting, but if you encounter problems it is the first place to look.

If you want to start programming in Pascal, I suggest you take a look at your local search engine or surf to www.friends-of-fpc.org (if you are not reading this text there that is ;). Note that most tutorials in the web are on Borland/ Turbo Pascal. If so, try giving the Argument "-So" if you encounter problems compiling TP code.

Again something on Editors/ IDEs etc. There ARE special IDEs for the Free Pascal Compiler. For example "WinFPC". But WinFPC does not seems to get updated anymore and has some nasty bugs. So I would recommend using some kind of Editor until somebody takes the time to code a real Windows IDE.

Well, I guess that's all I have to say about getting started with FPC. I hope everything went well with the installation. Again: if you have some questions, remarks, whatever, conact me at delax@sundancerinc.de. Bye then. Have fun!

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