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This page describes the current status of the BeOS/Haiku port of Free Pascal.

==Current==
Since FPC 2.4.0 there is official support for Haiku. The FPC release can be downloaded from [http://www.freepascal.org/down/i386/haiku.var here].

==In the past==
Here are unofficial builds needed to compile Free Pascal on those platforms :

 - BeOS : [http://olivier.coursiere.free.fr/bootstrap/fpc-2.2.1.i386-beos.tar.gz fpc-2.2.1.i386-beos.tar.gz] 
 - Haiku : [http://olivier.coursiere.free.fr/bootstrap/fpc-2.2.1.i386-haiku.tar.gz fpc-2.2.1.i386-haiku.tar.gz] 

Those compilers should compile "branches/fixes_2_2" and trunk.

What is missing is a specific target for haiku to use the native ld included in the development package instead of a R5 one. This work is in progress. Until then, the native ld could be used by replacing

 LinkRes.Add('elf_i386_be');

by

 LinkRes.Add('elf_i386_haiku');

in compiler/systems/t_beos.pas when compiling under Haiku.


The console mode IDE should work but compiling it with gdb support is more complicated (you will need to collect a lot of static libraries from the haiku build : libgdb.a and all its dependencies...).

Here is a snapshot of fpc 2.3.1 for Haiku (revision 11134) : [http://olivier.coursiere.free.fr/download/fpc-2.3.1.i386-haiku.tar.gz fpc-2.3.1.i386-haiku.tar.gz]

This snapshot contains the text mode IDE compiled with debugging support.

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