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Welcome to Lazarus
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Lazarus is a Rapid Application Development Tool for Free Pascal.
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It comes with the LCL - Lazarus component library, which contains platform
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independent visual components like buttons, windows, checkbox, treeview and
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many, many more. The LCL is platform independent, so you can write an
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application once and then compile for various platforms without changing code.
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[Free Pascal](https://www.freepascal.org) is a fast Object Pascal compiler,
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that runs on more than 20 platforms (Linux, Windows, BSD, OS/2, DOS, PowerPC,
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and many more).
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The LCL currently supports:
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* Linux/FreeBSD (GTK2, Qt4, Qt5 and Qt6)
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* all flavors of Windows (even WinCE)
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* macOS (Cocoa, Carbon, GTK2, Qt4, Qt5, Qt6)
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There is an experimental support for:
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* GTK3
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* Solaris
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The LCL still contains code for GTK1, although this target is obsolete.
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### Compilation
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You don't need ```./configure```, just do
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```make clean bigide``` (```gmake clean bigide``` in BSD).
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This will create the Lazarus executable with a lot of packages.
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Start it and enjoy.
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If the above gives an error, you can try to build a minimal IDE with
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```make clean all``` (```gmake clean all``` in BSD).
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### Installation and Requirements
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See [Lazarus Wiki](https://wiki.freepascal.org/Category:Install) for details.
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### Usage
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Start the IDE with:
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```shell
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cd your/lazarus/directory
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./lazarus
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```
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### Documentation
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The official site is www.lazarus-ide.org.
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Documents about specific topics can be found at
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https://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Documentation.
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Examples on how to use the LCL can be found in the [examples](examples) directory.
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Help, documents and files about Free Pascal are at www.freepascal.org.
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### Mailing list
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There is a very active and helpful mailing list for Lazarus, where the
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developers interact, share ideas, discuss problems, and of course answer
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questions.
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You can subscribe at
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http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus.
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### How to help Lazarus
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If you find bugs, don't hesitate to use issue tracker,
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or send an email to the list.
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Lazarus source code and issue tracker are located at [GitLab](https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/lazarus/lazarus).
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