Lazarus- Game Developers Edition

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  Note: This page was a working document in 2007 for creating a Lazarus installer specially targeted at Game Developers. As at October 2021, no such Games edition exists. This may however serve as a useful starting point should someone(s) undertake such a quest in the future.

Target Features

• IDE specific enhancements(project templates, compiler settings)
• FPC4GBA, GameBoy Advance packaged binaries, libs & tools
• FPC4NDS, Nintendo DS packaged binaries, libs & tools
• 3 Major ports: Win32/64, Linux, Mac OS X
• Out of the box cross-compiling to Windows from Linux & Mac OS X

Packaged 3rd Party Libraries

• GLScene (http://glscene.sourceforge.net/)
• JEDI-SDL (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jedi-sdl)

Packaged Headers

• OpenGL
• SDL (via JEDI-SDL)
• DirectX 9 (http://www.clootie.ru/)
• DirectX 10
• OpenAL
• Newton Game Dynamics (http://www.newtondynamics.com/)
• ODE (http://www.hypeskeptic.com/Mattias/DelphiODE/)

Optional Demos & Examples Package

• Translated Microsoft DirectX SDK by Clootie (http://www.clootie.ru/)
• Delphi Newton Demos by Sascha Willems (http://newton.delphigl.de/)
• JEDI-SDL Demos

Possible Future Additions

• Indy Components (http://www.indyproject.org/Sockets/fpc/index.aspx)
• DelphiX for Lazarus
• Asphyre for Lazarus (http://www.afterwarp.net/)
• Omega for Lazarus
• BASS Headers
• FMOD Headers
• Cross-Compiling from Windows to Linux & Mac OS X

Other features and libraries may be added upon request, but will depend on compatibility with the Free Pascal compiler and the Lazarus IDE itself.