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*[[Lazarus Inline Assembler]] - a getting started guide.
 
*[[Lazarus Inline Assembler]] - a getting started guide.
 
*[[Databases]] - An introduction to using databases in Lazarus and links to other database articles.
 
*[[Databases]] - An introduction to using databases in Lazarus and links to other database articles.
*[[Lazarus Database Tutorial]] - A tutorial which teachs specifically how to connect to popular databases, for example MySQL, Firebird, Postgres, etc.
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*[[SQLdb_Tutorial1]] - A tutorial that teaches you to get up and running with Lazarus visual components and databases
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*[[Lazarus Database Tutorial]] - A tutorial which has some more background information on how to connect to popular databases, for example MySQL, Firebird, Postgres, etc.
 
*[[Translations / i18n / localizations for programs]] - How to provide localized versions of your programs and packages
 
*[[Translations / i18n / localizations for programs]] - How to provide localized versions of your programs and packages
 
*[[Daemons and Services]] - How to write windows services and/or linux daemons.
 
*[[Daemons and Services]] - How to write windows services and/or linux daemons.

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Lazarus and Pascal Tutorials

Lazarus/FPC

Hardware, Threads and Processes

  • Using the printer - Printer support in Lazarus
  • Hardware Access - How to access hardware devices, such as ISA cards, PCI cards, parallel and serial ports and USB devices.
  • Multithreaded Application Tutorial - How to write multithreaded applications using Free Pascal and Lazarus.
  • Executing External Programs - A short tutorial showing how to run external programs from inside your program.
  • LazDeviceAPIs - A LCL unit which offers an interface to various hardware devices such as the Accelerometer, SMS sending, GPS positioning, etc.

Files

Web

Platform specific Tips

The Lazarus User Guides

Installation

IDE

LCL

Developing

Tools

Coming from Delphi

The Lazarus Developer Guides

LCL - Lazarus component library

Interfaces

Translations

  • Translations / i18n / localizations for programs How to translate your application and how to load translated resourcestrings of projects and packages in your application.
  • 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 of terms used in the Lazarus IDE for the Portuguese-Brazilian translation.
  • Russian - Notes and guidelines for translating the Lazarus IDE into Russian.

Additional Components Documentation

Free Pascal Compiler Documentation

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

Lazarus related blogs, websites, videos, magazines and books

Blogs

Websites

Videos

Books and Magazines

Missing documentation?

If you miss documentation for Lazarus or FreePascal, you can always write it yourself and submit it to the Lazarus/FPC bugtracker for inclusion. Have a look at:

  • FPDoc Editor Built-in documentation editor in Lazarus. Page explains how to get fpdoc help sources and write your own help.