General

Coding

Tools

Search

Introduction

Free Pascal (aka FPK Pascal) is a 32 and 64 bit professional Pascal compiler. It is available for different processors: Intel x86, Amd64/x86-64, PowerPC, PowerPC64, and Sparc. The discontinued 1.0 version also supports the Motorola 680x0. The following operating systems are supported: Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X/Darwin, Mac OS classic, DOS, Win32, WinCE, OS/2, Netware (libc and classic) and MorphOS.

Latest News

1 June 2006 Francesco Lombardi has released a snapshot of his Gameboy Advance Free Pascal port, download it here.

April 2006 The first WIN64 Snapshot has been uploaded to the FTP site.

Current Version

Version 2.0.2 is the latest stable version the Free Pascal. Hit the download link and select a mirror close to you to download your copy. The development releases have version numbers 2.1.x. See the development page how to obtain the latest sources and support development.

Features

The language syntax has excellent compatibility with TP 7.0 as well as with most versions of Delphi (classes, rtti, exceptions, ansistrings, widestrings, interfaces). A Mac Pascal compatibility mode is also provided to assist Apple users. Furthermore Free Pascal supports function overloading, operator overloading, global properties and other such features.

Requirements

• x86 architecture:

  For the 80x86 version at least a 386 processor is required, but a 486 is recommended.

• PowerPC architecture:

  Any PowerPC processor will do. 16 MB of RAM is required. The Mac OS classic version is expected to work System 7.5.3 and later. The Mac OS X version requires Mac OS X 10.1 or later, with the developer tools installed. On other operating systems Free Pascal runs on any system that can run the operating system.

• ARM architecture:

  Only cross-compiling to ARM is supported at this time.

• Sparc architecture:

  16 MB of RAM is required. Runs on any Sparc Linux installation.

License

The packages and runtime library come under a modified Library GNU Public License to allow the use of static libraries when creating applications. The compiler source itself comes under the GNU General Public License. The sources for both the compiler and runtime library are available; the complete compiler is written in Pascal.