Free Pascal :
Users' manual

Michaël Van Canneyt
Florian Klämpfl

March 1998

• Contents
• Introduction
  • About this document
  • About the compiler
  • Getting more information.
• Installing the compiler
  • Before Installation : Requirements
  • Installing the compiler.
  • Testing the compiler
• Compiler usage
  • Compiling a program
  • Compiling a unit
  • Creating an executable for GO32V1 and PMODE/DJ targets
  • Reducing the size of your program
• Compiling problems
  • General problems
  • Problems you may encounter under DOS
• Compiler configuration
  • Using the command-line options
  • Using the configuration file
• Porting Turbo Pascal Code
  • Things that will not work
  • Things which are extra
  • Turbo Pascal compatibility mode
• Utilities and units that come with Free Pascal
  • Supplied programs
  • Supplied units
• Debugging your Programs
  • Compiling your program with debugger support
  • Using gdb to debug your program
  • Caveats when debugging with gdb
  • Support for gprof, the gnu profiler
• CGI programming in Free Pascal
  • Getting your data
  • Producing output
  • I'm under Windows, what now ?
• Alphabetical listing of command-line options
• Alphabetical list of reserved words
• Compiler error messages
  • Compiler errors
• Run time errors
  • Assembler reader errors.
• The Floating Point Coprocessor emulator
• A sample gdb.ini file