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- June 1 2006
- Francesco Lombardi has a released snapshot of his Gameboy Advance Free Pascal port, download it here.
- April 2006 summary
- The first WIN64 Snapshot has been uploaded to the FTP site
- March 2006 summary Lots of new progress in March, but too busy coding to update the website, so this entry will be a summary of progress on the main (2.1.1) branch:
- Thomas Schatzl is making good progress with the linux 64-bit PowerPC port. A snapshot is here
- Peter did a Titanic work, and crafted an internal linker for win32 and win64, reducing linking times tremendously. For such a complex new subsystem, it is already quite stable.
- DWARF debugging info support is slowly starting to work. Stabs will be phased out in time.
- Florian just showed a first "Hello world" program for Win64. This is remarkable since GCC and the binutils don't even support this target. (Internal linker!)
- Jonas reported that he has ported to Darwin/i386 with remarkable little effort. Snapshots are expected in the coming weeks.
- February 15, 2006
- An FPC port for Solaris/Sparc has been created. Get a snapshot here.
- February 7, 2006
- Francesco Lombardi is making great progres porting Free Pascal to the Game Boy Advance. Checkout this forum thread on Pascal Game Development to see some screenshots.
- February 6, 2006
- January 10, 2006
- The Pascal Game Development Annual Competition is about to start. Can you code a game in Free Pascal? Then join the competition!
- December 8, 2005
- FPC 2.0.2 is ready for download. 2.0.2 is mainly a bug fix release for 2.0.0. The whatsnew.txt can be found here.
- September 22, 2005
- The Pixel image editor is one of the projects which show the power of FPC: Pavel Kanzelsberger made an image editing program using FPC which works on 8 platforms and which beat even programs like GIMP, PaintShop Pro and PhotoImpact according to a recent test of a Czech Computer magazin. Today, version 1.0 beta 5 was released.
- August 22, 2005
- ARM port of Free Pascal can now be used to develop games for the Gameboy Advance. See the Pascal Game Development site for more information.
- August 18, 2005
- Free Pascal can be installed on Fedora from the Fedora Extras. To do so,
add Extras to your Yum-repository (see here for instructions)
and then install using
yum install fpc
Documentation and src-package for Lazarus are available withyum install fpc-doc yum install fpc-src
- 16 May 2005
- OSNews features an article written by Free Pascal developer Daniël Mantione today.
- 15 May 2005
- Free Pascal 2.0 is released! Go get it at one of the mirrors! This is the first stable release of the development branch we started five years ago. The 2.0 release is technically vastly superior to version 1.0 and has everything in it to belong to the select group of big compilers.
- 30 Mar 2005
- The task of porting the Free Pascal Compiler to Linux/PowerPC64 has been added to IBM's Linux On Power contest, which means you can earn a PowerMac dual G5/2GHz by completing this port! More information in this post to the fpc-devel mailing list.
- 24 Feb 2005
- A second release candidate for 2.0 has been released. It has been released as version 1.9.8. Read more. Get it.
- 10 Feb 2005
- Because of an IP address change the freepascal.org domain was not reachable for a day. The DNS changes will take a couple of days until things settle down again.
- 01 Jan 2005
- The FPC development team wishes you a happy new year and announces the first 2.0 release candidate. It has been released as version 1.9.6. Read more.
- 01 Jan 2005
- For the first time there is a Free Pascal beta release for classic Mac OS. Read more.
- 05 Nov 2004
- There is now also arm/linux cross compiler available. You can download the i386/linux to arm/linux cross compiler snapshot from here.
- 03 Nov 2004
- The x86 64 (aka. AMD64) compiler is progressing nicely so we created a snapshot. You can download the x86-64/Linux snapshot here.
- 22 Sep 2004
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Today the Sparc compiler compiled itself on a Sparcstation 5 and a UltraSparc, both running
Linux.
Update:You can download a Sparc/Linux snapshot here. - 6 June 2004
- Today the PowerPC compiler first compiled itself on a Pegasos II/G4 computer running MorphOS.
- 31 May 2004
- A third public beta for 2.0 has released as version 1.9.4. PowerPC is stable and has now also support for MacOSX.
- 02 May 2004
- The first 64-bit port has arrived. Tonight, FPC compiled itself for the first time on a 64-bit system. The system was of the AMD64 type.
- 16 March 2004
- The missing compiler versions for 1.0.10 are now uploaded; these consists of the AmigaOS, Solaris, QNX and BeOS compilers. Sorry for the late delay (Carl).
- 30 January 2003
- The quest continues: The 1.9.3 compiler runs on the ARM processor. The Zaurus is now capable of running FPC and FPC compiled programs !
- 11 January 2004
- A second public beta for 2.0 has released as version 1.9.2, improvements all around, but powerpc is coming along more than nicely, so there is a linux/powerpc release. This release is also the first where the x86 codegenerator has register parameters.
- 5 November 2003
- A first public beta, taken from the development branch, has been released. To celebrate that, the version has been upped to 1.9. For now only full archives for the Go32V2, win32, FreeBSD and Linux platforms on the intel (x86) architecture are available We hope the number of platforms and architectures will steadily expand during the 1.9.x beta series, which will culminate ultimately in the 2.0 release.
- 21 October 2003
- The work on the first 2.0 beta is progressing nicely and a first release is scheduled for 1st
November. However, this first beta will be available only for linux-i386, win32-i386 and freebsd-i386.
Preparing beta releases for more OSes would take too much time of the core developers. Of course, any
volounteer is welcome to help us to prepare beta releases for other OSes. Beta releases of
linux-powerpc and linux-sparc will be released a few weeks later.
To avoid confusion: this will be the first release of the 1.1 development branch compiler. The packages, compiler etc. will get the version number 1.9.x. As soon as the final release is released, the version will be changed to 2.0.0.
- 25 September 2003
- Merging of the new register allocator has largely finished, and focus is shifting to get a first 2.0 beta for testing purposes out later this year. The Future Plans (Roadmap) page has been updated with some details about what to expect for the 2.0 series of compilers
- 1 September 2003
- www.freepascal.org took part in an online demonstration against the introduction of software patents in Europe. The protest page can still be seen here. Note that while the situation is not as bad as it looks there, it is a realistic possibility. The mentioned patent is real, and the currently proposed directive would make it (and many other already - illegally - granted trivial software patents) enforceable in Europe. However, thanks to the massive protest, the vote has been delayed till 22nd September and several politicians are opening their eyes. Thanks for your understanding!
- 11 July 2003
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Finally, the long awaited successor to 1.0.6 is out. It is called 1.0.10, and is a (mostly) fixes release.
The reason for skipping 1.0.8 is that the release process took too long, and temporary files have been
exposed too long on the FTP site, so the FPC team decided to make the final release 1.0.10.
This release is expected to be the absolute last release in the 1.0 fixbranch. Development will now be completely focused on the main branch (1.1) where significant progress has been made lately (SPARC and PPC ports).
- 7 July 2003
- Today, "Hello world!" worked for the first time under Linux/SPARC. This means the SPARC code generator is now minimally working!
- 25 May 2003
- Yesterday, "make cycle" worked for the first time under Linux/PPC. This means the PowerPC code generator is now fairly stable. Someone (Olle Raab) is working on a classic Mac OS Run Time Library and the Darwin RTL is being worked on as well. Hopefully we'll have something distributable in the next few weeks!
- 24 January 2003
- The mailing lists are now working again.
- 22 January 2003
- The mailing lists are currently out of order because the server which runs the mailing lists has a problem. We'll take this opportunity to update this server on Friday, so the mailing lists will be back at weekend.
- 19 January 2003
- A 1.0.7 compiler snapshot for classic Amiga is now available from the freepascal ftp site.
- 12 January 2003
- Debugging of the 1.0.7 compiler is coming along nicely. Normally, a release candidate for 1.0.8 should be done very soon. Also, with the 1.0.8 release, linux-m68k and Amiga-m68k versions of the compiler will also be released.
- The 1.1 compiler is also coming along nicely, currently a new register allocator scheme is being designed to help optimize register usage.
- 17 October 2002
- A linux-m68k snapshot (version 1.0.7) of the compiler is now available here. An amiga-m68k snapshot (version 1.0.7) should follow soon.
- 24 September 2002
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During the last days, the 1.0.x compiler compiled itself for the
first time. The job was done on a 50 MHz Mac IIci (68030), under
NetBSD, and the compilation took over 3 hours.
It seems that the multiplatform FPC compiler is finally starting to become reality. - 23 September 2002
- The PalmOS port of the compiler has been removed, as it is not in a usable state.
- 6 September 2002
- The PowerPC port is finally progressing nicely. Under Linux, we can already get a "Hello world" on screen (followed by a number of "RunTime Error" messages and a kernel crash :), but we're making progress. The Darwin RTL has also been started.
- 10 july 2002
- There were problems with the 1.0.6 installers for both OS/2 (Warp 3.0 or earlier), and Windows (Win95/98/Me). These are now fixed in the FPC 1.0.6 distributions. Sorry for the inconveniences.
- 24 may 2002
- There were problems with the FPC 1.0.6 linux RPM, where the 1.0.6 beta build was actually released as an official release. On the command-line if ppc386 -i gives out Free Pascal Compiler version 1.0.6-beta, you do not have the latest official release of the linux compiler. Please re-install the linux RPM version which is located on the FTP site (that one should really now be the 1.0.6 release). Sorry for the inconveniences.
- 4 may 2002
- QNX version has been released, based on the 1.0.6a source. 1.0.6a is similar to version 1.0.6, except for patches applied to make the QNX version compile.
- 30 April 2002
- After some weeks of pre-release testing, 1.0.6 is finally released.
- 27 Februrary 2002
- The Freepascal site was down for a few days, due to an ISP change.
- 17 december 2001
- Solaris-intel port of Free Pascal is completed. Snapshots (v1.0.x) can be downloaded in the development section.
- system unit of BeOS is now called system instead of sysbeos.
- 15 november 2001
- New FAQ which is more comprehensive.
- 19 september 2001
- Web sites updated (removed invalid links and some general cleanup)
- Freepascal version 1.0.6 will be released very soon (with a much more stable IDE and updated documentation)
- We are working hard on stabilizing the Motorola 680x0 port (the compiler can compile cycle itself on linux-m68k)
- Version 1.1 of Freepascal is still being worked on, stay tuned for more information
- 23 August 2001
- The m68k version has been updated, a beta version for the PalmOS is available here.
- A short description can be found here.
- 21 May 2001
- The website has a new layout. Because the 1.0.4 version is quite stable there is no new release and we're working mainly on the 1.1 development branch.
- 31 December 2000
- Version 1.0.4 of the Free Pascal Compiler has been officially released. Hit the download link and select a mirror close to you to download your copy.
- 7 November 2000
- A beta FreeBSD version 1.0.2 is now available for download
- A post 1.0.2 snapshot that addresses some problems with terminals is available on the FTP site
- 19 October 2000
- The OS/2 version 1.0.2 is now also available for download.
- 12 October 2000
- Version 1.0.2 of the Free Pascal Compiler has been officially released. Hit the download link and select a mirror close to you to download your copy.
- 12 September 2000
- A community site has been set up. For now there are online discussion forums, in the future we will expand the community site.
- 3 September 2000
- The (Online) HTML Documentation now also contains the examples, just like the PDF Documentation
- 31 July 2000
- We've updated the Dos version of the installer (which is also included in the OS/2 and DosW32 packages) to fix the reported crashes under OS/2 and WindowsNT. Also the false "Error -2 -- Disk full?" errors have been fixed. If you had problems with the old install.exe, you can download a new one from the download page. See also this FAQ question.
- 12 July 2000
- Version 1.00 of the Free Pascal Compiler has been officially released. Hit the download link and select a mirror close to you to download your copy.
- 16 April 2000
- The FreeBSD compiler compiled itself for the first time. From now on, development FreeBSD snapshots will be uploaded to the FreePascal ftp site. when important features are implemented or fixed
- 25 February 2000
- 22 February 2000
- C&L ships the first edition of the German translation of the free pascal manuals. German users can order the book from from the C&L website.
- 7 February 2000
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There was a bug in the compiler which caused the graph unit of the Dos version
to crash on startup of any graphical program if you didn't turn on smart linking.
The solutions are to always use smart linking when compiling graph programs
(use the -XX command line option) or to get a snapshot (or wait for the next release).
Some other things already fixed/added since the 0.99.14 release:
- bug in the installer which caused false insufficient diskspace alerts
- bug in readln which causes empty lines to be returned when the end of the text buffer is reached (and in some other cases, even if there are none) (already in the OS/2 release, because it came out later)
- bug in the Linux graph unit which caused a crash on many systems and only B&W output on others
- addition of a lineinfo unit, which, when your program crashes, adds file/line number information behind the printed addresses (also for the heaptrace output)!!
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There was a bug in the compiler which caused the graph unit of the Dos version
to crash on startup of any graphical program if you didn't turn on smart linking.
The solutions are to always use smart linking when compiling graph programs
(use the -XX command line option) or to get a snapshot (or wait for the next release).
Some other things already fixed/added since the 0.99.14 release:
- 4 February 2000
- 31 January 2000
- A fixed version of install.sh for the linux tar installation is available here. This version will fix the problem with the wrong symlink and sources.tar typo.
- 27 January 2000
- 7 January 2000
- As you may have noticed, it's been a long time since the news has been updated. In the mean time, development has continued though! Soon, we'll release version 0.99.14 of the compiler which will be a final candidate for version 1.0. Some weeks later, we'll (finally) release version 1.0.
- As always, you can get the latest compiler and RTL in the form of a snapshot in the development section if you want to see what we've done since the last official release.
- A new section has been added: programmer tools. It contains documentation for all helper programs included with FPC. Check it out!
- 26 July 1999
- 25 June 1999
- 9 April 1999
- Snapshots for the IDE are now available from the development page.
- If you want to use the daily source packages you also need the "base" package, installation notes are included in that package.
- 15 January 1999
- 0.99.10 for OS/2 & Dos released
- 23 December 1998
- Released Version 0.99.10 (aka 1.0 beta 2).
- The IDE is progressing nicely and will be included with the next version.