Lazarus Documentation
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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.
- Developing with Graphics - Some basic examples on graphic programming.
- 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
- Lazarus Documentation Editor Using "lazde" to create documentation.
- 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. There is now also a WiKi site for FreePascal [1] very similar in style to this one, to allow developers to submit documentation in addition to the official FPC documents below.
