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The following PDF documents are online available:

• Documentation table of contents
• User's guide.
• Programmer's guide.
• Reference guide for the system unit, and supported Pascal constructs.
• Standard units reference manual.
• fpdoc documentation tool reference manual.
• Reference chart with all compiler options and switches.

A user-contributed (from Tiziano) class chart in PDF format is also available here.

The following HTML documents are online available:

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• Documentation table of contents (with/without comments).
• User's guide (with/without comments).
• Programmer's guide (with/without comments).
• Reference guide for the system unit, and supported Pascal constructs (with/without comments).
• Standard units reference manual (with/without comments).
• fpdoc documentation tool reference manual (with/without comments).

You can also download the documentation in some alternative formats. See the Download page. The windows unit is not documented in Free Pascal. The reason for this is that this is a HUGE unit, which would describe the complete win32 API, and that is not the purpose of this documentation.

However, the Win32 api help can be downloaded for free from Borland's web site. This will give an overview of all win32 API calls, and as such it describes all functions in the windows unit. The help file is oriented towards C programmers, but transposing to pascal should be straightforward.

The complete and up-to-date documentation of the Windows API is also on-line available on Microsofts website.

The Free pascal manuals have been translated to German by C&L, and can be purchased from the C&L website.

New to programming?

Our manuals are written for people who already know how to program in Pascal. If you are looking for information how you can learn Pascal, Toa Yue's Learn Pascal Tutorial is a good choice.