Hello,

It is with great pleasure that the Free Pascal Development Team announces that

Version 1.0.2

of the Free Pascal compiler has been officially released.

Most important fixes since the previous (1.00) release:

- Smartlinking for win32 fixed
- Smartlinking speedup
- Memory requirements reduced
- Lot of IDE fixes
- Can't select wrong assembler output for targets
- overload directive support

The Free Pascal Compiler features:

- A Turbo Pascal and Delphi compatible compiler for the Intel processor family, with some extensions to the Pascal and Object Pascal dialects, such as operator overloading.
- Full debugger support with GNU GDB.
- An OS independent Run-Time Library, equivalent to the Turbo Pascal and Delphi Run-Time Libraries, not dependent on external libraries.
- An API allowing for OS-Independent screen, keyboard and mouse management.
- Many units, interfacing to various API's: gtk, xforms, zlib, ncurses, sockets, X, mysql, postgresql, Interbase, paszlib, opengl, libgdb.
- A Free Component Library, containing many base classes from the Delphi VCL.
- An IDE resembling Turbo Pascal's IDE (currently Beta quality) with full GDB debugger support.
- More than 800 pages of documentation in Adobe PDF format, featuring
+ User's guide
+ Programmer's guide
+ Reference guide
+ reference guide for all units in the Run-Time Library
+ More than 440 complete example programs.
(Other formats include plain text, HTML and PostScript)
- Full sources to compiler, RTL, docs, packages.

More information can be found on:

http://www.freepascal.org/

Installations are available for the following platforms:

Dos - Using the go32 extender
Windows - Native Windows binary
Linux - RPM, .deb and .tar.gz packages are available. OS/2 - Using the EMX extender.
Amiga - Based on version 0.99.5

Select your nearest download location from:

http://www.freepascal.org/sdown.html

(Beware, not all mirrors may be up-to date yet...)

or you can go directly to the FTP site:

Dos - ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/Dos Win32 - ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/Win32 Linux - ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/Linux OS/2 - ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/Os2 Amiga - ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/Amiga

Installation instructions can be found on the web-page.

If you experience any problems with the installation, please let us know, so we can correct them as soon as possible.

Enjoy !

Peter,
speaking for the whole Free Pascal Development Team ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter

Hi all,

I've just d/l & installed freepascal for win32. Installation 'seemed' to proceede okay, but now i get a message about missing SYSTEM unit if i try to compile anything with it. Would appreciate any & all comments.

thanks,
Damijan

Hello,

It is with great pleasure that the Free Pascal Development Team announces
that

Version 1.0.2 beta for FreeBSD 4.x +

of the Free Pascal compiler has been officially released.

This is a first beta version, commandline only, and not all packages are
checked for FreeBSD compability.

If you have FreeBSD available, try to test to compile your sources with
FreeBSD, so we can lift this beta status soon.

The Free Pascal Compiler/FreeBSD features:

- A Turbo Pascal and Delphi compatible compiler for the Intel processor
family, with some extensions to the Pascal and Object Pascal dialects,
such as operator overloading.
- An OS independent Run-Time Library, equivalent to the Turbo Pascal and Delphi Run-Time Libraries, not dependent on external libraries.
- An API allowing for OS-Independent screen, keyboard and mouse management. (we need a lot of fixes and help here!)
- Many units, interfacing to various API's: gtk, xforms, zlib, ncurses,
sockets, X, mysql, postgresql, Interbase, paszlib, opengl, libgdb.
- A Free Component Library, containing many base classes from the Delphi VCL.
- More than 800 pages of documentation in Adobe PDF format, featuring
+ User's guide
+ Programmer's guide
+ Reference guide
+ reference guide for all units in the Run-Time Library
+ More than 440 complete example programs.
(Other formats include plain text, HTML and PostScript)
- Full sources to compiler, RTL, docs, packages.

The distribution is available from

ftp://ftp.freepascal.org in directory /pub/fpc/dist/freebsd-1.0.2 and below
and from FTP mirrors.

Marco,
speaking for the whole Free Pascal Development Team

Marco van de Voort ( or )

Which version do you use? 1.02 or 1.00 ?

Which version do you use? 1.02 or 1.00 ?

1.02 for win32. i've d/l the dos version and it works fine....