ppc386(1)

💖 ppc386 — Free Pascal Compiler (FPC) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Free Pascal Compiler corner of the manual pages 🎀 this one's a lil chaotic but it's fine, i got you 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

ppc386 — the Free Pascal Compiler (FPC) binary, and the name comes from Portable Pascal Compiler iykyk 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ppc386 [options] [sourcefile]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so this binary is the back-end binary of the Free Pascal Compiler (FPC) 💖 and FPC itself is a Turbo Pascal and Delphi (7.0) compatible, standalone (meaning non-GCC-frontend, no cap) multitarget Pascal compiler. it's giving main character energy fr fr 👑

now here's the tea tho 😭 this binary should not be called directly. like, don't. instead you use the fpc program, and that one is the one doing the choosing — it picks the right back-end for compiling units for the platforms you asked for 🌈 so fpc is the friend who orders for the whole table, and ppc386 is just the kitchen. periodt.

lowkey important: calling this one directly is not the move. use fpc. that's the vibe check 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

for the complete list of all supported command-line options, go read the fpc(1) manual page, bestie — everything lives there ✨

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• fpc(1)

that's the whole page, you ate it 💖 this was the Free Pascal manual page for ppc386, dated 30 may 1999 — iconic honestly, she's been serving since '99 👑✨ mwah, go compile something 🍓🧚