FreePascal

[Frank McCormick]

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On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:54:43 +0200
Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 10:32:12AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
> >     Up until a few years ago I used to program in Free Pascal under
> > DOS and OS/2. Now that I am a Linux geek I'd like to take a look
/snip/
> 
> Ubuntu builds every package from sources.  You cannot build Free Pascal
> from sources without having a working Free Pascal.  That's why binary
> fpc packages are not available for Ubuntu.
> 
> I've had luck downloading fpc packages from Debian and installing them
> on Ubuntu.
> 

   I followed the instructions on a webpage someone else pointed out here and everything works
well. Basically its a hand assembly job. Too bad someone doesn't whip up a package for Ubuntu...its a great compiler.





> Place mark here ->[ ]<- if you want a dirty monitor.
> 

  Works here :)

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Cheers

Frank

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