Hi,

1. At home I'm working with FreePascal for Windows. But in extra curricular lessons, I work with Linux (Mandrake). I tried to install FreePascal for Linux on this comuter, but it didn't work. For example there is no IDE and if I start fpc in the console, there is no output. Is it because I am not logged in as a root user? How can I solve this?

2. If there is no solution, can I run the windows version of FreePascal with WINE and compile the programs for Linux (crosscompiling)? If yes, how can I do this?

Thanks for your awnsers.

Holger

You must install as root. 'fpc' or 'ppc386' commands should invoke the compiler.
As far as I know the IDE for Linux is not quite ready... I use VIM to edit my code. Put this in your '.vimrc'-file:

" Pascal syntax settings
let pascal_vp=1
let pascal_fpc=1
" Set vim-make to run FPC compiler
set makeprg=fpc.sh\ #<.pas

'fpc.sh' is my own shellscript:

#!/bin/bash
#mydef="DEBUG"
mydef="RELEASE"
ppc386 -d$mydef \
-FE/home/arne/bin \
FU/home/arne/bin/Units \
Fu/home/arne/bin/Units \
$*

Then I know where my executables and object files goes.

2. If there is no solution, can I run the windows version of FreePascal with WINE and compile the programs for Linux (crosscompiling)? If yes, how can I do this?

I should guess so (crosscompiling is also possible, but I've never tried to set up fpc to do so).