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11This page describes the current status of the BeOS/Haiku port of Free Pascal.
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33## Current
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55Since FPC 2.4.0 there is official support for Haiku. The FPC release can be downloaded from [here](http://www.freepascal.org/down/i386/haiku.var).
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77## In the past
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99Here are unofficial builds needed to compile Free Pascal on those platforms :
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11-`- BeOS : `[`fpc-2.2.1.i386-beos.tar.gz`](http://olivier.coursiere.free.fr/bootstrap/fpc-2.2.1.i386-beos.tar.gz)` `\
12-`- Haiku : `[`fpc-2.2.1.i386-haiku.tar.gz`](http://olivier.coursiere.free.fr/bootstrap/fpc-2.2.1.i386-haiku.tar.gz)` `
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12+- BeOS : fpc-2.2.1.i386-beos.tar.gz
13+- Haiku : fpc-2.2.1.i386-haiku.tar.gz
14+```
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1416Those compilers should compile "branches/fixes_2_2" and trunk.
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1618What is missing is a specific target for haiku to use the native ld included in the development package instead of a R5 one. This work is in progress. Until then, the native ld could be used by replacing
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18-`LinkRes.Add('elf_i386_be');`
20+```
21+LinkRes.Add('elf_i386_be');
22+```
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2024by
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22-`LinkRes.Add('elf_i386_haiku');`
26+```
27+LinkRes.Add('elf_i386_haiku');
28+```
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2430in compiler/systems/t_beos.pas when compiling under Haiku.
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2632The console mode IDE should work but compiling it with gdb support is more complicated (you will need to collect a lot of static libraries from the haiku build : libgdb.a and all its dependencies...).
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2834Here is a snapshot of fpc 2.3.1 for Haiku (revision 11134) : [fpc-2.3.1.i386-haiku.tar.gz](http://olivier.coursiere.free.fr/download/fpc-2.3.1.i386-haiku.tar.gz)
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3036This snapshot contains the text mode IDE compiled with debugging support.
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3339*From the Free Pascal wiki, page "BeOS port", as it stood on 2013-04-06 after a change by Jwdietrich, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's [[Licensing]] page. If you have concerns about this material, [message the admin](/wiki-contact).*
3440Category: Operating Systems and Platforms

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