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Where to obtain GNU Pascal

The master ftp site for GNU Pascal is agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de. The most up-to-date source of the compiler, binary distributions for many platforms and other GNU Pascal related files can be found in

ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/gnu-pascal/.

What else to download and where

GNU Pascal shares its back-end with GNU C. If you want to compile it, you will need the source of the GNU C compiler as well as the source of GNU Pascal itself. For the current version gpc-19990118, please download gcc-2.8.1 or newer from a GNU ftp mirror (see the list on the GNU home page for the site closest to you), or egcs-1.1.1 or newer from ftp://egcs.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/.

When you are using GNU Pascal on a DOS system, you will need either the DJGPP or the EMX development environment. On an OS/2 system, you will need EMX (see below).

DJGPP

DJGPP is available from any SimTel mirror in the gnu/djgpp subdirectoy. (Look into the DJGPP FAQ (652 kB characters) for ftp addresses.) For using GNU Pascal you need at least

We also recommend you to get

EMX

EMX is an environment for creating 32-bit applications for DOS and OS/2. It is available via anonymous ftp from

To develop EMX programs with GNU Pascal you need at least

If your DOS box has DPMI (it has when you are using MS-Windows or OS/2) you will also need RSX, available from the same sites as EMX in the archive contrib/dpmigcc5.zip or contrib/rsx503.zip.

The GNU development tools contain the GNU C compiler which is in fact not needed to use GNU Pascal. However the C library is needed.



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