Target Darwin

Introduction

Darwin is the target for Mac OS X, both powerpc and i386. Programs may also be run on a machine with only Darwin installed.

Installation

There are two possibilities:

1) Download the image file at ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/

Version 2.0.4: ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/powerpc-macosx-2.0.4/fpc-2.0.4.powerpc-macosx.dmg.

Version 2.2.0: ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/powerpc-macosx-2.2.0/fpc-2.2.0.powerpc-macosx.dmg.

Version 2.2.0: ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/i386-macosx-2.2.0/fpc-2.2.0.intel-macosx.dmg.

2) Use fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net)

In addition, daily snapshots of the development powerpc and i386 versions of fpc 2.3.1 and lazarus are available at (usage at own risk):

http://ftp.de.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/

http://ftp.hu.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/

http://ftp.ca.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/

http://michael-ep3.physik.uni-halle.de/Lazarus/

Usage

1) Editor (AlphaX, BBedit, ...) and commandline (fpc your_pascal_program.pas)

2) XCode

Recommended: Pascal extensions for XCode: http://www.freepascal.org/xcode.html

XCode 2.2.1 needs a newer revision of the integration kit. XCode 2.3 is also ongoing work.

3) DOS-like IDE

A description of how to get the IDE running is here: How to get the fpc ide running under Mac OS X

4) Lazarus

Lazarus is a GTK based RAD environment: http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org

More

• Mac OS Pascal universal interfaces are now part of the extra packages: packages/extra/univint

• IDE already works, except for some graphic glitches on the user output screen,
• gdb support?
  • the gdb can be executed from command line and works

• can mouse events be supported with Terminal.app and X11.app? how?
  • The mouse unit needs to be checked.

• universal binaries (powerpc and i386)
  • the powerpc and i386 executables have to be created separately and then combined using lipo