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beginner in pascal for Mac

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Ezequiel Tacsir

I was used to wok with freepascal on windows. Now, I have switch to mac ( 10.5) and would like to know what are the things that I need to have it running. If anybody can send me a basic tutorial for installation, running and so on, I will be delighted.
Thanks,

Eze.

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Graeme Geldenhuys
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Ezequiel Tacsir wrote 5 lines
I was used to wok with freepascal on windows. Now, I have switch to mac (10.5) and would like to know what are the things that I need to have it running. If anybody can send me a basic tutorial for installation, running and so on, I will be delighted.

Hi Eze,

I don't use a Mac, but I think the information you are looking for are covered on the Lazarus Wiki. I believe I saw something there a while back.

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- Graeme -

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Damien Gerard
to Ezequiel Tacsir: I was used to wok with freepascal on windows. Now, I have switch to mac ( 10.5) and would…
Ezequiel Tacsir wrote 5 lines
I was used to wok with freepascal on windows. Now, I have switch to mac (10.5) and would like to know what are the things that I need to have it running. If anybody can send me a basic tutorial for installation, running and so on, I will be delighted.

Using FPC on a mac is really easy if you are comfortable with Terminal and I use it every days.
After that, I don't know, my Vim is for me really really more efficient that any text editor :)

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Damien Gerard Le temps n'a pas d'importance. Seul le code est important -- (f00ty)

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Ingemar Ragnemalm
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Damien Gerard wrote: On Jan 15, 2008, at 11:54 AM, Ezequiel Tacsir wrote: > I was used to wok with freepascal on windows. Now, I have switch to > mac (10.5) and would like to know what are the things that I need to > have it running. If anybody can send me a basic tutorial for > installation, running and so on, I will be delighted. > Using FPC on a mac is really easy if you are comfortable with Terminal and I use it every days. After that, I don't know, my Vim is for me really really more efficient that any text editor :)

Installation is easy. You need to install the developer tools (Xcode, but the GCC linker is the important thing), but both the Xcode and FPC installers are Mac standard installers, no trouble. (Perhaps the best feature with the Mac is the excellent installation systems.) After installing Xcode, you can trash the entire Developer folder if you don't want the applications (freeing up most of the disk space). The important things are installed in /usr/local, which is only visible from the Terminal.

If command-line work is all you want, the Terminal is what you want. Plus a text editor. Nobody (?) does text editing on the command line any more, but there are plenty of nice text editor to choose from.

When fed up with command-line compilations, you can consider two IDE options: Xcode (with plug-ins) or Lightweight IDE. I wrote Lightweight IDE myself after giving up Xcode and found myself back at the command-line.

/Ingemar

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Damien Gerard
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Ingemar Ragnemalm wrote 30 lines
wrote: > Damien Gerard wrote: > > On Jan 15, 2008, at 11:54 AM, Ezequiel Tacsir wrote: > > >> I was used to wok with freepascal on windows. Now, I have switch >> to mac (10.5) and would like to know what are the things that I >> need to have it running. If anybody can send me a basic tutorial >> for installation, running and so on, I will be delighted. >> > > Using FPC on a mac is really easy if you are comfortable with > Terminal and I use it every days. > After that, I don't know, my Vim is for me really really more > efficient that any text editor :) > Installation is easy. You need to install the developer tools (Xcode, but the GCC linker is the important thing), but both the Xcode and FPC installers are Mac standard installers, no trouble. (Perhaps the best feature with the Mac is the excellent installation systems.) After installing Xcode, you can trash the entire Developer folder if you don't want the applications (freeing up most of the disk space). The important things are installed in /usr/local, which is only visible from the Terminal. If command-line work is all you want, the Terminal is what you want. Plus a text editor. Nobody (?) does text editing on the command line any more, but there are plenty of nice text editor to choose from.

It is not true :)
The command line is far from the faster way for efficient work and vim/ emacs are the more powerfull than any other text editor.

Developper tools are provided with your install DVD of Mac OS X. You need them but I am sure you should use it with FreePascal. I find it really not appropriated.
Some people like TextWrangler, you can try it http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/productivity_tools/textwrangler.html

May be you should use Lazarus, which is like Delphi if you know it. http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus_on_MacOS_X

Be carefull this page is not up-to-date. That's reminds me I should update this page.

Damien Gerard Le temps n'a pas d'importance. Seul le code est important -- (f00ty)

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Ezequiel Tacsir
to Ezequiel Tacsir: I was used to wok with freepascal on windows. Now, I have switch to mac ( 10.5) and would…

I am a beginner in Pascal on Mac. I would like to know where my things are after being build and run. Also, since I have never use the console/terminal I would like to get some advice to know how to start with it (speacially since I simply want to be able to export some results made from teh pascal code to a txt file to graph them).
Thanks,

Eze

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