Lazarus Documentation

Lazarus and Pascal Tutorials

• Lazarus Tutorial - A tutorial for beginners and a detailed description of the Lazarus IDE.

• Lazarus IDE Tools - An intermediate level tutorial about code completion and other IDE tools.

• Lazarus Database Tutorial - An introduction to using Lazarus with databases.

• Pascal Tutorial - Tao Yue's Pascal Tutorial (reposted with permission).

• Executing External Programs - A short tutorial showing how to run external programs from inside your program.

The Lazarus User Guides

• Installing Lazarus - An installation guide (please add to it!)

• Lazarus For Delphi Users - For Delphi users who are getting started with Lazarus

• Lazarus Faq - General information about Lazarus and specifics for Linux and Windows users.

The Lazarus Developer Guides

• How To Help Developing Lazarus - A guide to help newbies start improving Lazarus
• Creating a Patch - A guide to making a patch with changes made to Lazarus
• Creating a Backtrace with GDB - A guide to making a backtrace to help you debug a program
• How To Make Lazarus Docs - A guide to creating Documentation Files
• Design Guide Lines - A guide about how to procede when changing Lazarus Source Code.
• LCL Messages - Guide related to LCL Messages.
• LCL Internals - Some info about the inner workings of the LCL.

Translations

• Getting translation strings right A few notes for programmers on how to create and use translateable strings in your application. Quickly discusses general things about creating strings, offers a few hints on implementation issues and points out some things to consider when using English as base language in particular.
• Localization Notes:

• German - Notes and guidelines for translating the Lazarus IDE to German, including a small dictionary to look up often used translations.
• Portuguese-Brazilian - Small dictionary containing common translations for terms used in the Lazarus IDE for the Portugese-Brazilian translation.

Code Conversion Guides

• Code Conversion Guide - How to convert existing code and components

IDE Documentation

• Getting Lazarus - Instructions on how to download a released or CVS version of Lazarus **

• Lazarus Packages - A guide for creating a package under Lazarus

• Install Packages - A small guide to install packages

• Cross compiling for Win32 under Linux - The link says it all.

• Remote Debugging - How to debug your Lazarus application from another machine.

• Extending the IDE - How to add functionality to the Lazarus IDE

• Lazarus IDE ToDo List - Remaining tasks for the IDE

• Anchor Sides - Description of Anchor Sides Feature

Free Pascal Compiler Documentation

In addition to this site, the latest version of the documentation can also be found online and in a variety of downloadable formats on the main Free Pascal Compiler site.

• User's guide
• Programmer's guide
• Reference guide for the system unit, and supported Pascal constructs
• Standard units reference manual
• Free Component Library reference manual
• Free Pascal documentation tool manual