Tools that come with FPC
Free Pascal comes with several command-line tools that you can use to ease
your programming. The following tools are available:
- h2pas is a small command-line
utility that can be used to translate C header files to pascal units.
The Free Pascal team uses it to make import units for important C libraries
such as GTK or MySQL.
- fpcmake is a tool that allows
you to make complex makefiles to compile programs and units with FPC. The
Free Pascal team uses it to create all it's makefiles.
- ppdep is a small utility that
scans a program or unit and creates a depend file that can be used for
inclusion by make. It understands conditional symbols and interdependency of
units.
- delp is a small utility that scans
a directory for files left over by the Free Pascal compiler, and deletes
them.
- ppudump dumps the contents of
a unit in human-readable format. It understands older versions of units and
gracefully handles unknown (future) versions.
- ppufiles lists the object files that
you need to link in when using a unit file. It lists all libraries and units
that are needed.
- ppumove combines several units
into one; as such it can be used to create static and dynamic libraries.
- ptop is a configurable source
formatter. It pretty-prints your pascal code, much like indent does
for C code.
- rstconv is a small utility that
converts .rst files (files that contain resource strings, as created
by the compiler to some other format. (GNU gettext at the moment)
- TP Lex and
Yacc, written by Albert Graef. It can be used
to create pascal units from a Lex vocabulary and Yacc grammar.
