Computing: Free Pascal Programming

The Lazarus/Free Pascal Project.

A major part of my computing activity consists in developing programs, written in the Free Pascal programming language and created using the Lazarus integrated development environment. In this section of my website, I publish details concerning the Lazarus/Free Pascal project, the installation of the IDE and supplementary packages and general information about Lazarus and the FPC compiler on various platforms. You also find here a three-parts tutorial concerning the basics, how to access data stored in a MySQL database from within Lazarus/Free Pascal applications, information about other database distributions, and an introduction to network programming. For information about how to realize a specific task, using Lazarus/Free Pascal, please visit the Free Pascal Programming Tips section.

Section contents.

The Lazarus/Free Pascal project Installing Lazarus/Free Pascal Creating a Lazarus project using existing resources Installing supplementary Lazarus packages Creating command line programs with Lazarus 32-bit cross-compiling on Windows 64-bit Building Lazarus applications on Linux and macOS

Special data types: Variants, variant records, and variant arrays Using 32-bit and 64-bit inline assembly with Free Pascal Database access with Lazarus/Free Pascal on Windows Accessing MySQL with Lazarus/Free Pascal on macOS Introduction to network programming using Lazarus/Free Pascal