GNU Pascal - the "mother" of all Pascal compilers
Introduction
Welcome to the African Chief's GNU Pascal link page.
Here you can find out all about the GNU Pascal (GPC) project. GNU
Pascal is a free and portable 32-bit Pascal compiler. It supports ANSI/ISO
Standard Pascal, and most of the ANSI/ISO Extended Pascal, UCSD Pascal,
and Borland Pascal syntaxes. Ports of GPC exist for Win32 (MINGW32),
DOS (DJGPP), OS/2 and DOS (EMX), Linux (ELF), Linux
(a.out), FreeBSD, IRIX, Digital Alpha (OSF 1), Solaris, and
more. In all, GPC is on its way to becoming the Mother of all Pascal compilers.
Portability is a major goal of the project, but so also is the desire to
provide Pascal programmers with a robust, industry standard, flexible,
rich, optmising compiler.
The latest full release is v2.1.
The GPC distributions come with full source code to the
compiler and libraries. Precompiled binaries exist for various platforms.
All of these are freely downloadable from the internet. This page provides
you with some useful links to GPC v2.1 releases, and some other useful
related sites.
For example, you can visit
the GNU homepage, and my fledgling GNU-Win32
page.
You can also visit
the GNU Pascal homepage, and, you can read
the GNU Pascal "to do" list.
The latest sources can be downloaded from
http://www.gnu-pascal.de/current/.
Downloads
1. Click here for the compiler
(v2.1) sources.
2. Click or here
for the African Chief's Cygwin
(Win32) and Mingw32
(Win32) and Solaris
2.5.1 binaries.
3. Click here for
the DJGPP (Dos32) binaries.
Note that, to use GPC under OS/2, you also need to download
the EMX development system. To use GPC under DOS, you need to download
either the EMX development system (which works for OS/2 and DOS), or the
DJGPP development system (which works under DOS). The DOS and OS/2 compilers
work in these environments. These environments are explained below.
The DJGPP (DOS-32) development system
DJGPP is a complete 32-bit development system for Intel 80386
(and higher) PCs running DOS. It includes ports of many GNU development
utilities. Many "third-party" software have been written for djgpp, and
many applications that are outgrowing their 16-bit roots are being rewritten
to take advantage of djgpp's 32-bit environment. Popular examples of these
(some are still in the works) are Quake, Info-Zip, GhostScript, Executor/DOS,
WatTCP, Xemu, DESQview/X's developers kit, and countless data processing
programs used by companies and individuals throughout the world. You can
visit
the DJGPP homepage, or
download
the DJGPP libraries, and also some
necessary GNU tools (assembler, etc).
The RHIDE development environment
GPC does not have a built-in development environment (or
IDE). However, there exists a freeware Borland-style integrated development
environment called RHIDE. RHIDE resembles the Borland Pascal and Borland
C++ DOS IDEs in almost every respect. It supports GNU compilers such as
the GNU C/C++, and also GNU Pascal, and can be used as the IDE for GPC.
RHIDE runs under DOS, and Linux. RHIDE comes with the full (C++) source
code. It was developed with GNU C/C++ under DJGPP, using a port of Borland's
Turbo Vision application framework (ported for DJGPP). You can download
the RHIDE binaries, and the
RHIDE source code.
Or you can try Frank Heckenbach's PENG
editor.
The GPC list
Discussions on the GNU Pascal project take place on the GPC
list (gpc@gnu.de) on the internet. All the members of the GPC development
team are active on this list. This is where you can make your own contributions
and suggestions.
Join the GPC list! gpc-request@gnu.de
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