[haiku] Re: Free Pascal : new major version 2.4.0 also released for Haiku
- From: Marcos Alves <retrojogos@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:21:18 +0000
Hello.
This is very nice actually, I was fiddling with the windows version the
other day (of both programs) trying to port a delphi msn client, but my
lackness of coding skills prevented me to do so.
Anyway, I think this is great! :)
Regards,
Marcos.
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Olivier Coursiere <
olivier.coursiere@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With the new year, a new Free Pascal release came out : Free Pascal 2.4.0,
> with the first official package for Haiku.
>
> Here is the announcement : http://freepascal.org/ and here is the download
> page : http://freepascal.org/down/i386/haiku.var.
>
> The package include :
> - the compiler,
> - lots of libraries,
> - and a complete textmode IDE, with mouse and integrated debugging support.
>
> While there is probably more bugs under Haiku than under other supported
> platforms, i think it is ready for more exposure.
>
> The long term goal (at least mine ;-) is still to provide some direct
> pascal bindings to the Haiku's API (but nothing new for years in this area).
>
> In the meantime, it might be possible to have a complete Delphi like IDE
> thanks to Lazarus (http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/) and Haiku's qt port
> (http://dev.osdrawer.net/projects/qt-beos/). It is still not usable, but
> here is a screenshot showing the current state :
> http://olivier.coursiere.free.fr/download/Lazarus_UnderHaiku.png.
>
> Happy Haiku year !
>
> Olivier
>
>
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Marcos Alves aka Xeon3D
www.xeon3d.info
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