The Free Pascal Compiler is a Turbo Pascal 7.0 and Delphi-compatible 32/64 bit Pascal Compiler. It comes with a fully TP 7.0-compatible run-time library. Some extensions have been added to the language, like function overloading. Shared libraries can be linked. Basic Delphi support is implemented with classes, exceptions, RTTI, and ansistrings. A Free Component Library (FCL) is available with the base classes. Bindings for X11, ncurses, GTK, OpenGL, zlib, mysql, interbase and postgres are available.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This version contains mostly bugfixes, selectedbackported features, and a cleanroomimplementation of some routines that weresuspected of copyright infringement. You are urgedto upgrade to this new version to avoid possiblecopyright issues.
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