[csw-users] Lazarus and FreePascal

[Dennis Clarke]

>            Hi Dennis,
>  Hey, GREAT news.. thanks for this.. After FPC is ported I am willing to try
> and get lazarus working also -

well .. let me take a first kick at this and see how it goes.

I will need to figure out some test mechaisms to verify the resultant
binaries also.  To begin this I will stick within the UNIX XPG4 standards
specs and ensure my fisrt build just gets past the Studio 11 compiler. 
Afterwards I will go back and review warnings etc.

>  which really should not require much.
>  Lazarus is a very very good Pascal RAD IDE that superceeds Delphi, and is
> really the reason I need FPC :)

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/images/7/78/Lazarus_IDE_Windows.jpg

Looks like Visual BASIC doesn't it ?  Nifty.

>  If you are interested, lazarus is as http://lazarus.freepascal.org
>  If you need any assistance, irc.freenode.net #fpc is a great group of
> people and would be very willing to give you any advice you need in
> the port.

If you see a new user named dclarke appear .. that's me :-)

>
>  Again, thanks alot for attempting this.

Well ... let's see how it goes.  I should warn you that I wrote a LOT of
Pascal back in the day. I was in the Military and while we were looking at
Lisp and ADA and other fancy langs it was Pascal that seemed to soak up my
nights and days. Plus a whack of Fortran. I often wrote long double
conversion procedures in Fortran that I then linked those objects into
Pascal as external calls.  Long long ago in a server room far far away ...

Dennis