Free pascal is an exellant pascal compiler developped under the GLP licence.
It works on many platforms, such as Linux and Windows.
You can dowload it, without paying, at the URL : http://www.freepascal.org/sdown.html
The main page is : http://www.freepascal.org/
Using Free pascal, I developped 65 commented examples, and the beginning of
an object library. You can download :
- The readme04.txt file, explaining the examples
and the library units. (57 Kb)
- The bugsReport01.txt, giving known bugs of
Demo01. (1 Kb)
- The bugsReport02.txt, giving known bugs. (1
Kb)
- The bugsReport03.txt, giving known bugs. (1
Kb)
- The PlanFutur03.txt, if you want to help and
see some plans for the future. (3 Kb))
- The sources of the examples + library.
(651 Kb) (Look also at the little readme.txt with the sources)
- The sources with the executable .exe
of the examples + library. (6'769 Kb)
- The sources, the executable and the intermediate
files (.ow, .ppw) of the examples + library. (7'427 Kb)
Examples tEx055.pp, tEx057.pp and tEx058.pp are very nice 3D graphic drawings.
I used DevPascal which is a basic but good Integrated Developpment Environment
(IDE) under windows, to write and compile FreePascal programs.
You can downlad it at the URL : http://www.bloodshed.net/dev/pascal.html
The main page is : http://www.bloodshed.net/devpascal.html
The text IDE from FreePascal didn't work with satifactions when I tried it. I had very quickly crashes. I don't know why ?
I plan to continue the developpement of commened examples and library. I would like to do the same under Linux KDE, but I have 10 years experience under windows, and no experience programming under Linux KDE or GNOME.
I tried a littre GTK, which seems very interresting, but doesn't use the facilities
and security of object programming. Maybe an object library using GTK would
be interresting. For more information about GTK, see http://www.gtk.org/
I began to see how WOL works, but it is not commented, and has big bugs. After
each execution of the version 0.7, I had to reboot my computer, because the
resources of my computer went down to zero. I tried to see where the problem
was, but found only another problem that resources are kept into memory. Thus
using many different colors make the computer crash very quickly. For more information
about WOL, see http://wolibrary.tripod.com
I found it it a good project, but documentation fails, and memorising resources
instead of releasing them, is not a good idea.
If you have problems with the .ZIP files, or simply want to use the bes file
manager under window I know, dowload the shareware Windows Commander at the
URL : http://www.ghisler.com
For me it replaces so many other utilities at the same time. A button launch
bar, an FTP program, many decompacter such as unzip, a file comparaison program,
a directory comparaison program, many files viewer (It you download IrfanView
and use it with Window Commander addOns) and more. It even dedtected once a
virus in a computer where I worked, simply by telling us that the executable
file has been modified.
For fun... and because I miss a lot Borland Pascal for windows. I dislike
Delphi.