Free Pascal

It is available for various processors like Intel x86, Amd64/x86_64, PowerPC, PowerPC64, ARM and Sparc.

The following operating systems are supported: Linux, FreeBSD, Haiku Mac OS X/Darwin, DOS, Win32, Win64, WinCE, OS/2, Netware (libc and classic) and MorphOS.

What is new in this release:

• Added Haiku specific fix to cwstring (don't link liblocale, locale functions are in libroot).

What is new in version 2.6.0:

• FPC 2.6.0 has been released! 2.6.0 is a major new version, which adds many post-Delphi 7 language features and adds or improves the support for various platforms.

What is new in version 2.4.4:

• Many improvements to the XML units
• Many improvements to the database units.
• Specially sqlite got quite some fixes.
• Many improvements to the chm units.
• Including a commandline CHM compiler
• Many improvements to fppkg and fpmake for another round of testing.
• Fixes for multi-threading support in OS/2 RTL.

What is new in version 2.4.2:

• Delphi 2006 like for..in support.
• Support for sealed and abstract class modifiers,new targets ( 64-bit FreeBSD (x86_64)).
• Many improvements and fixes to the XML, database and CHM packages.
• Long term bug in OS/2 implementation of unit Video finally fixed which among others allows inclusion of the text-mode IDE (without debugger) for this platform as part of the distribution again.
• Many compiler bugfixes and more than half an year of library updates (since 2.4.0).

What is new in version 2.4.0:

• Platforms:
• New platform: Mac OS X/PowerPC64
• New platform: Mac OS X/x86_64
• New platform: Mac OS X/ARM (iPhone)
• New platform: Haiku/i386
• Compiler:
• Support for Delphi-style resource handling
• Whole-program optimization infrastructure, which initially supports program devirtualization and unused virtual method removal
• Much faster compilation of units containing many type-sections
• The ability to suppress individual hints/warnings/notes
• Several improvements to the DWARF debug information generation
• Fixes to the generics support
• Fixes to the interface delegation (implements) support
• Improved cpu register allocation
• Improved ARM/EABI support
• RTL:
• Linearly scaling multi-threaded memory manager
• Support for (advisory) file locking on Unix-based platforms when using the SysUtils file creation/opening routines
• Support for ANSI ISO Extended Pascal ReadStr/WriteStr
• A UnicodeString type that, while not yet equivalent to Delphi 2009's UnicodeString type, offers reference counted UnicodeString support on the Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and Beos/Haiku platforms.
• Packages:
• Many improvements to the XML units
• Many improvements to the database units
• Updated the common Mac OS X Pascal interfaces to r241, including header a translation of the CFNetwork framework
• The zipper unit now works correctly on big endian platforms

Requirements:

• x86 architecture: 386 processor or higher
• PowerPC architecture: 16 MB of RAM, MAC OS 7.5.3 or higher
• ARM architecture: 16 MB of RAM
• Sparc architecture: 16 MB of RAM