Lazarus(1)

💅 NAME

Lazarus — it's a Rapid Application Development (RAD) thingy for the Free Pascal Compiler (FPC), and bestie, it comes with a whole Integrated Development Environment (IDE) included. Obsessed. ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS

lazarus

That's it. That's the whole vibe. Just run it. 💫

🌸 DESCRIPTION

So this binary? It's an integrated development environment for the Free Pascal Compiler (FPC), which is literally an advanced Turbo Pascal and Delphi (7.0) compatible multi-target Pascal compiler. The range. The versatility. We love to see it. 💖

The IDE uses FPC(1) — yes, it's that girl's bestie. 🫶

The current main supported targets are Linux, Mac OS X, Freebsd, and Windows. Slay. 👑

The other targets are either based on older versions of the compiler or are still in development — so like, they're in their growing era. Give them grace. 🌱

Heads up bestie: this manpage is meant for quick-reference only. Lazarus comes with an online manual, which is updated constantly, while this man page can be out of date. So don't come for me if something's off, the online manual is the main character here. 😭

✨ Usage ✨

The user interface of the IDE has been designed to be similar to Delphi. It gives you a user friendly but honestly rather powerful editor, a form editor, an extensive on-line help system and a debugger. The full package. No notes. 💅

A windowing system is the base of the user interface. The user will usually open a few text editor windows in which he will design his program, and during all of that he can regularly check and debug through the use of hot keys. The high speed of the compiler ensures that programmers can do this often, which therefore allows speedy development of code. It's giving productivity era fr fr. 🔥

🎀 Help files 🎀

No help files are provided by default. Not a single one. Empty. Nada. 🙈

The user must download the Lazarus and Free Pascal documentation in HTML format and install it into the IDE using Help->Configure Help. Files can also be installed in this menu, and they can be useful for source code that ships with HTML files as documentation. So like, go get your docs, bestie. You got this. 🦋

👑 AUTHORS

Lazarus development team (see http://lazarus.freepascal.org )

🌈 SEE ALSO

• startlazarus(1)
• lazbuild(1)
• fpc(1)

Free Pascal · 19 April 2008

And that's the whole page, bestie — Free Pascal, 19 April 2008, written by the Lazarus devs, delivered to you with love. Periodt. 💖✨🎀