Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:54:43 -0500 From: "Rod Person" <rodperson@rodperson.com> To: "Eduardo Morras" <emorras@xroff.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fpc on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <op.u5pk9h1bwdsea2@ccbh-194.acct.upmchs.net> In-Reply-To: <20091229163216.3975F1065672@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20091229163216.3975F1065672@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:16:29 -0500, Eduardo Morras <emorras@xroff.net> wrote: >> Is fpc's IDE usable, like good ol' TP6 and 7, never mind Delphi? Docs >> seem vast, I'm wondering if there's a simple guide to basic compilation, >> but basically I'd just like to hear that it's working ok for someone and >> is worth the learning curve? > > Yes, it is usable, but there are other ides. You can try Lazarus, f.ex. > > Also, you can ask at the fpc lists, where there are better chances of > help. > Lazarus is like Delphi 5 or 7. I actually used it 4 or 5 years ago to port some Delphi code to FreeBSD and it worked pretty well. I used Lazarus and FPC to create a GUI cd burner for FreeBSD and a front end to a mysql db for tracking my album collection - but I moved to python so haven't used it in 4 years or so. Rod -- if i was cool and a mindless slave to trends and fashion, this would be sent from my iPhone, but it's not.
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