[lazarus] Free Pascal compiler version 1.00 is officially out !

[Michael Van Canneyt]

Hello,

It is with great pleasure that the Free Pascal Development Team announces
that
 
   Version 1.00

of the Free Pascal compiler has been officially released.

The Free Pascal Compiler features:

- A Turbo Pascal and Delphi compatible compiler for the Intel processor
  family,  with some extensions to the Pascal and Object Pascal dialects, 
  such as operator overloading.
- Full debugger support with GNU GDB.
- An OS independent Run-Time Library, equivalent to the Turbo Pascal
  and Delphi Run-Time Libraries, not dependent on external libraries.
- An API allowing for OS-Independent screen, keyboard and mouse 
  management.
- Many units, interfacing to various API's: gtk, xforms, zlib, ncurses,
  sockets, X, mysql, postgresql, Interbase, paszlib, opengl, libgdb.
- A Free Component Library, containing many base classes from the 
  Delphi VCL.
- An IDE resembling Turbo Pascal's IDE (currently Beta quality) with
  full GDB debugger support.
- More than 800 pages of documentation in Adobe PDF format, featuring
  + User's guide
  + Programmer's guide
  + Reference guide
  + reference guide for all units in the Run-Time Library
  + More than 440 complete example programs.
  (Other formats include plain text, HTML and PostScript)
- Full sources to compiler, RTL, docs, packages.

More information can be found on:

  http://www.freepascal.org/

Installations are available for the following platforms:

Dos       - Using the go32 extender
Windows   - Native Windows binary
Linux     - RPM, .deb and .tar.gz packages are available.
OS/2      - Using the EMX extender.
Amiga     - Based on version 0.99.5

Select your nearest download location from:

  http://www.freepascal.org/sdown.html

(Beware, not all mirrors may be up-to date yet...)

or you can go directly to the FTP site:

Dos       - ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/Dos
Win32     - ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/Win32
Linux     - ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/Linux
OS/2      - ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/Os2
Amiga     - ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/Amiga

Installation instructions can be found on the web-page.

If you experience any problems with the installation, please let
us know, so we can correct them as soon as possible. 

Enjoy !

Michael, 
speaking for the whole Free Pascal Development Team
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