Free Pascal on RPi

Free Pascal is a professional but free 32 bit / 64 bit compiler for Pascal and ObjectPascal. The Raspberry Pi system is supported with Raspbian OS.

Simple installation
In the Raspbian distribution Free Pascal is easily installed with the following shell commands:

You might also want to install Lazarus, a graphical IDE.

There are three modes to use Free Pascal on Raspbian:


 * via the shell command . This requires to enter a number of options along with the   command.
 * via the shell command . This command starts a text-based IDE (see screenshot).
 * via Lazarus, a very comfortable IDE