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 - by Delax

The Free Pascal Compiler sure is the best thing around since Borland stopped supporting their Pascal compilers. FPC has support for various processor families, it is able to compile for multiple operating systems, mostly BP/ Delphi compatible and best of all: it's free!

One reason that FPC is not as popular as it's successor may be it's lack of an IDE (Integrated Development Enviroment). Newbies are scared of the "old fashioned" way of compiling a programm in DOS or to use an "old looking" DOS Enviroment.

With this tutorial I try to show complete newbies how to get started with FPC. We will first install the compiler and then configure an external editor that will be used as an IDE. By the way: the article is aimed at Windows programmers or at least programmers that code on the windows platform.

Chapter 1 - Installation of the compiler

Chapter 2 - Installation of the editor

Chapter 3 - Misc and famous last words

Download Tutorial as .ZIP file

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