It's Now Offical; Free Pascal Supports GameBoy Advance

**WILL** · 31-05-2006, 09:33 AM

Well it's now official. Both Dani?´l Mantione [size=9px](Free Pascal Team developer)[/size] and Francesco Lombardi [size=9px]aka Legolas (major FPC 4 GBA Initiative contributor)[/size] have confirmed that the Free Pascal Compiler currently has and will have GameBoy Advanced target support come it's next release.

Legolas has uploaded a copy of the official FPC4GBA-based binaries to his personal site and Dani?´l has informed me that he has also placed them on the Free Pascal FTP site too. They will become available on the FPC 4 GBA Initiative site within the next few days.

This marks the milestone of the first time a commercial video game system has been supported by a Pascal compiler directly. Nice work to all that have helped and those that have really put their butts in gear to get us to this stage! :thumbup:

The Free Pascal Compiler is avaialble at www.FreePascal.org

The FPC 4 GBA Initiative site is at FPC4GBA.PascalGameDevelopment.com

**aidave** · 31-05-2006, 03:23 PM

cool

**Legolas** · 31-05-2006, 05:52 PM

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In fact sources are officially released, and I have put a snapshot for your pleasure on my site

About an official support in next release, maybe we should wait a little bit, because we need to discuss about some technical aspects, like integrating linker script in the fpc sources, making a gba lib and so on

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[size=9px]BTW, you MUST download fpc4gba and test it![/size] :mrgreen:

**MikeS** · 31-05-2006, 08:01 PM

Wow, truly amazing! I'm going to have to buy some dummy cartridges and try to compile a hello world for the GBA.

Credits to all invovled bravo! And it all started here!