Lazarus on RPi

Lazarus is a cross-platform IDE for Free Pascal, a professional 32 bit / 64 bit Pascal Compiler. Lazarus supports a wide variety of processors and Linux distributions including the Raspberry Pi.

Simple installation

In the Raspbian distribution Lazarus and Free Pascal are easily installed with the following shell commands:

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

This installs a ready-to-use precompiled version of Lazarus.

Compiling from sources

In order to compile Lazarus from subversion sources see Michell Computing: Lazarus on the Raspberry Pi for details.

External Links

• Additional information about Lazarus on Raspberry Pi in the Free Pascal wiki
• Lazarus wrapper unit for Gordon Henderson's wiringPi C library