I'm just writing to say for the new people that if the Free Pascal IDE is not working for you, the command line fpc command has all you need right out the box! If it doesn't seem to do something you want - the programmer's manual (PDF I used anyway) has a ton of command line options - that might be worth putting in a script or batch file (windows/dos flavor script). There are a ton of compiler directives you can put in your program's source code (my favorite option).
This is how I use the Free Pascal compiler. For editing source code, on Linux I like KWrite (syntax aware color coding and I like it) .. In windows I use this free programmable editor called TeraText Editor - some guy in Russia made - and its excellent. (Column editing that actually works right!) Another thing I do to make life easier is I work out of one directory, and I try to be smart about file naming for organization versus relying on some IDE to "group" my files into projects. Then I can work on my PROGRAMS and my UNITS from one location, linking is a breeze, and its easy to snap shot my whole directory for a SOURCE CODE version. My idea on source control in my own computer is making a directory named with a year, month, day, 24hr time (fpc200607200739) and then zipping it up. I know most of you know this stuff and it's a no brainer - but - I just wanted to say this because I see people having problems sometimes getting started and sometimes its easier to go around the ditch than to build a bridge! Free Pascal = Awesome Jason P Sage _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
