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    Any Free Pascal projects out there?

    Hey, I'm just currious if there are any Free Pascal projects out there worth mentioning in this forum?

    Lazarus is looking better by the release and Free Pascal is getting beefier and more feature filled it's self. There has to be someone making use of this fine multi-platform compiler somewhere.
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    Any Free Pascal projects out there?

    AFAIK (Dominique can correct me) SDL is compiling under FreePascal - pure multiplatform project.

    GLScene is in process of trying to compile "itself" under FreePascal.

    About half of Direc3D samples for Summer 2003 DirectX SDK on mine site can be compiled and run just fine under FreePascal. But during testing of new framework for 2004 release of DirectX SDK I've found that althrow I can compile it under FreePascal - projects fail to run correctly. Bugs were discovered in UNICODE support of FreePascal.
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    Any Free Pascal projects out there?

    I'm using the bloodshed free pascal compiler/ide combination and I love it. Rather than spending $100 on a Delphi compiler, I think I'll take free pascal for free.

    No doubt, Delphi is much more feature packed then FF, though FF is just easier for me to navigate around as a beginner.


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    Any Free Pascal projects out there?

    im waiting for Lazarus to be released on OSX then i can use it on my ibook

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    Any Free Pascal projects out there?

    Clootie: Excellent news! I hope you already reported those issues to the Free Pascal team, as it'll help it to become much better in the near future.


    Quote Originally Posted by MikeS
    I'm using the bloodshed free pascal compiler/ide combination and I love it. Rather than spending $100 on a Delphi compiler, I think I'll take free pascal for free.
    That sounds like forward-thinking logic to me

    I'm sure that when it comes to game programming, all the nice bells and whistles are nice, but down to the bottom of it all, it's all about the code man. But I admit it's nice to have a good IDE any day.


    tux: I'm with you on that one. More support for Mac OS X and other platforms like Playstation 2(PS3 in the near future), X-Box(X-Box 2 soon), and whatever Nintendo has up it's sleaves is the utimate aim for any game developer.



    For those of you wondering where you can find all of this stuff; You can find them at the following sites:

    :arrow: Free Pascal Compiler is @ http://www.freepascal.org/

    :arrow: Bloodshed Software's Dev-Pascal(IDE w/ Packaged version of Free Pascal or GNU Pascal Suite) is @ http://www.bloodshed.net/devpascal.html

    :arrow: Free Pascal Lazarus Project is @ http://lazarus.freepascal.org/
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    Any Free Pascal projects out there?

    is there much speed difference in the compiled code between free pascal and object pascal /delphi

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    Any Free Pascal projects out there?

    FreePascal is a bit slower than Delphi I think.

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    Any Free Pascal projects out there?

    I seriously doubt it's anything that can't be sped up by it's inline asm functions.
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    but mear mortals dont know asm

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    Any Free Pascal projects out there?

    Those who have chosen pascal over C will probably want to keep their code more maintainable than asm.

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