Platform list

This list presents all processor architectures and operating system platforms supported by Free Pascal (including experimental implementations).

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+: supported; O: under development.

Supported architectures

SVN trunk contains support at various levels of completeness for the following architectures:

• i386
• i8086
• ARM
• ARM64 (AArch64)
• AMD64 (x86_64)
• AVR
• LLVM IR
• m68k
• MIPS
• PowerPC
• PowerPC64
• SPARC
• SPARC64
• RISC-V
• Z80
• Java bytecode
• Xtensa
• WebAssembly

Former ports which were removed

• iA64/Itanium:
  • Non-compiling compiler, only some basic units for the compiler were implemented
  • Itanium has been officially discontinued as of January 30th, 2019
• Alpha:
  • Non-compiling compiler, only some basic units for the compiler were implemented

Supported targets for i386

• Android for i386
• AROS for i386
• BeOS, Zeta and Haiku for i386
• FreeBSD for i386
• GO32V2 DOS extender
• Linux for i386
• macOS for i386
• NetBSD for i386
• Netware for i386 (clib and libc)
• OpenBSD for i386
• OS/2 / eComStation
• OS/2 and DOS via EMX (currently not completely up to date)
• Solaris for i386
• Watcom compatible DOS extenders
• WDOSX DOS extender
• Win32 for i386

Supported targets for AMD64 (x86-64)

• AROS for AMD64 (experimental)
• FreeBSD for AMD64
• OpenBSD for AMD64
• NetBSD for AMD64
• DragonFlyBSD for AMD64
• Solaris for AMD64
• Haiku for AMD64
• Linux for AMD64
• macOS for AMD64
• Win64 for AMD64

Supported targets for i8086

• DOS
• Windows 16 bit
• Embedded

Supported targets for ARM

• Android
• AROS
• Embedded
• FreeRTOS
• GameBoy Advance (under development)
• Target Darwin (iOS) (2.3.x and later)
• Linux
• Native ARM Systems (not cross-development)
• Nintendo DS (under development)
• PalmOS port (under development)
• SymbianOS (development abandoned)

Supported targets for AArch64

• Linux for AArch64
• Target Darwin (iOS 64bit, macOS 64 bit)
• Windows for ARM64

Supported targets for PowerPC

• Linux for PowerPC
• Darwin (Mac OS X)
• NetBSD (core done, but not kept up to speed)
• MacOS (classic)
• MorphOS
• AmigaOS 4.x (maintainerless, but kept in a buildable state)
• Nintendo Wii (under development)

Supported targets for PowerPC64

• Linux (2.1.x and later)
• Target Darwin (Mac OS X) (2.3.x and later)

Supported targets for m68k

• Commodore Amiga
• Linux for m68k
• NetBSD (ELF only)
• Atari TOS (compiler itself works, but it's still in early stage)
• MacOS (classic, planned)
• Palm OS / Garnet OS (works, but experimental)
• Embedded (planned)

See page m68k for details.

Supported targets for SPARC

• Solaris for SPARC (in maintenance mode)
• Linux for SPARC

Supported targets for SPARC64

• Linux for SPARC64

Supported targets for MIPS

• Linux for MIPS

Supported targets for PIC

• Embedded

See MIPSEL page for details

Supported targets for AVR

• Embedded

See AVR page for details.

Supported targets for RISC-V

• Linux
• Embedded

Both 32- and 64-bit are supported.

Supported targets for Xtensa

• Linux
• FreeRTOS
• Embedded

Supported targets for Z80

• ZX Spectrum
• MSX-DOS
• Embedded

Supported targets for WebAssembly 32-bit

• WASI
• Embedded

See the WebAssembly/Compiler page for details.

Unofficial 3rd party ports

• GP2X (under development)
• UEFI Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (under early development)
• ZSeries IBM System/370, S/390 and zSeries mainframes (under development as "i370")

Stalled ports

• GameCube
• Xbox

Unlikely to be ported

• Sanos Win32-compatible console-mode operating system
• MUSIC/SP OS-compatible IBM mainframe operating system, using EBCDIC. Qemu and other emulators#MUSIC/SP using Sim/390 or Hercules

Resources for porting to new platforms...

... and keeping existing ones up to date.

• FPC HowToDo - new additions requiring attention of platform maintainers
• System unit structure - (work in progress - only skeleton finished) description of System unit internals

Cross compilation

Information about compilation for a different platform as the one running the compiler may be found in Cross compiling.

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From the Free Pascal wiki, page "Platform list", as it stood on 2022-05-02 after a change by Alextpp, 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.