Systems 2006

Planning

Booth service

• Florian: prefered 23th to 24th or 25th, 26th and 27th not possible
• Mattias: preferred 25th to 27th
• Swen: 23rd to 27th possible

CD

Content

• tgz source: fpc 2.0.4, lazarus 0.9.20
• tgz source: fpc 2.0.4, lazarus 0.9.20
• rpm i386: fpc 2.0.4, fpc-src, fpc-doc, lazarus 0.9.20
• deb i386: fpc 2.0.4, fpc-src, fpc-doc, lazarus 0.9.20
• dmg powerpc: fpc 2.0.4, fpc-src, lazarus 0.9.20
• windows installer: fpc 2.0.4, fpc-src, lazarus 0.9.20
• FreeBSD binary i386: fpc 2.0.4, fpc-src, lazarus 0.9.20
• tgz source: fpc 2.1.1
• Installation instructions

Feature list

FPC

• Free Pascal (aka FPK Pascal) is a 32 and 64 bit professional Pascal compiler.
• It is available for different processors: Intel x86, Amd64/x86 64, PowerPC, Sparc. The discontinued 1.0 version also supports the Motorola 680x0. The following operating systems are supported: Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X/Darwin, Mac OS classic, DOS, Win32, OS/2, Netware (libc and classic) and MorphOS.
• Object pascal: delphi compatibility mode
• RTL
• FCL
• Packages: gtk, gtk2, opengl, netdb, regexpr
• profiling: heaptrc for memory leaks, gprof or valgrind for speed

Lazarus

• IDE, RAD: written completely with fpc+lazarus, running on Windows, Linux, MacOSX and FreeBSD. Extensible via IDEIntf package.
• Translations: german, finnish, french, catalan, polish, spanish, ukrainian, portuguese, japanese, indonesian, chinese, italian, afrikaans, russian, arabic
• Documentation: wiki, tutorials, context sensitive IDE help, mailing list
• Debugger: breakpoints, watches, call stack
• Source editor: include files, using synedit, syntax highlighting (more than 15), code folding, codetools, class completion, identifier completion (Delphi: code completion), word completion, code refactoring (rename identifier, extract procedure), bookmarks, keeping comments, search/replace with regexpr and multi lines and in directories, find declaration, method jumping, can parse and work with Delphi, Kylix and FPC sources at the same time
• Form editing: object inspector, component editors, property editors, visual form inheritance, wysiwyg dragging, events creation,
• Command line compilation: lazbuild
• LCL: gtk1 and win32 fully working, gtk2: 95%, carbon: only started, qt amd wince: nearly all components started
• Converter for Delphi units, projects and packages
• Printing: printer4lazarus: cups (Linux, MacOSX, FreeBSD), winapi (Windows)
• C header converter: h2pas and h2pas wizard (package h2paswizard)
• Help: help for sources (F1 on identifier, e.g. TButton), most IDE windows, fpc keywords
• DB controls (DBEdit and friends): delphi compatible
• RTTI controls: controls using RTTI to avoid typing boring code
• CGI: cgiLaz
• chm help files: ChmHelpPkg
• dbf: dbflaz
• Automatic Testing: fpcunit
• images: .bmp, .png, .xpm built in LCL. jpg, pnm, tga in imagesforlazarus
• OpenGL control: lazopenglcontext (gtk, carbon, win32) or glscene (linux/gtk, win32)
• Memory dataset: memDS
• code beautifying: prettyformat
• SDF: SDFLaz
• rx controls: rx
• tray icon: trayiconlaz
• VirtualTreeview: virtualtreeslvl
• zeosdb: zeosdb

Third party packages

• Internet/smtp/ftp/http/tcp: synapse, curl
• virtualtreeview: extended TTreeView
• glscene: opengl (Windows, Linux)

Missing

• IDE: Version control system: Using svn, but no frontend in IDE. There are plenty good ones.
• IDE: frames
• LCL: complete gtk2
• LCL: complete carbon