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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 at www.freepascal.org is a fast object pascal compiler (and more),
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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 linux (gtk, gtk2 and qt4), all flavours of windows,
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even wince, Mac OS X (carbon, gtk, qt4), FreeBSD (gtk, gtk2).
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There is experimental support for Solaris and the native pascal backend fpgui
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which runs on windows, wince and linux.
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Compilation:
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You don't need ./configure, just do
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  []$ make clean all
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This will create the lazarus executable. Start it and enjoy.
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Installation and Requirements:
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See the file docs/INSTALL.
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Usage:
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Start the IDE with:
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  []$ cd your/lazarus/directory
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  []$ ./lazarus
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Documentation:
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The official site is www.lazarus.freepascal.org. There you can find the FAQ -
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the frequently asked questions.
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Documents about specific topics can be found at lazarus-ccr.sourceforge.net.
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Examples, how to use the LCL can be found in the '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 the bug tracking tool at the website,
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or send an email to the list.
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Patches can be sent as .zip or .tgz attachments directly to the mailing list if
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small, or (preferably) to the bug tracker at
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http://bugs.freepascal.org/my_view_page.php
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or send the patch to patch@dommelstein.net.
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