Difference between revisions of "Free Pascal on RPi"

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Free Pascal on Raspberry Pi (shown is the text-mode IDE).

Free Pascal is a professional but free 32 bit / 64 bit compiler for Pascal and ObjectPascal. The Raspberry Pi system is supported with Raspbian OS.

In the Raspbian distribution Free Pascal is easily installed with the following shell commands:

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get upgrade
  sudo apt-get install fpc

You might also want to install Lazarus, a graphical IDE.

There are three modes to use Free Pascal on Raspbian:

via the shell command fpc. This requires to enter a number of options along with the fpc command.
via the shell command fp. This command starts a text-based IDE (see screenshot).
via Lazarus, a very comfortable IDE

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-[[Free Pascal]] is a professional but free 32 bit / 64 bit compiler for [[Pascal]] and [[ObjectPascal]]. The Raspberry Pi system is supported with Raspbian OS.
+[[Free Pascal]] is a professional but free 32 bit / 64 bit compiler for [[Pascal]] and [[ObjectPascal]]. The [[Raspberry Pi]] system is supported with [[Raspbian OS]].
 ==Simple installation==