Target Darwin

Introduction

Darwin is the target for Mac OS X, both powerpc and i386. Programs may also be run on a machine with only Darwin installed.

Installation

There are two possibilities:

1) Download the the disk image with installed from the download page.

2) Use fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net)

In addition, daily snapshots of the development powerpc and i386 versions of fpc 2.3.1 and lazarus are available at (usage at own risk):

http://ftp.de.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/

http://ftp.hu.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/

http://ftp.ca.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/

http://michael-ep3.physik.uni-halle.de/Lazarus/

Usage

1) Editor (AlphaX, BBedit, ...) and command line (fpc your_pascal_program.pas)

2) Xcode

The FPC installer disk images contain installers with Xcode templates.

3) Leightweight IDE

An IDE in the classic Mac style: http://www.ragnemalm.se/lightweight/

4) DOS-like IDE

A description of how to get the IDE running is here: How to get the fpc ide running under Mac OS X

5) Lazarus

Lazarus is a Delphi-style RAD environment: http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org

More

• Mac OS Pascal universal interfaces are now part of the extra packages: packages/extra/univint

• IDE already works, except for some graphic glitches on the user output screen,
• gdb support?
  • the gdb can be executed from command line and works

• can mouse events be supported with Terminal.app and X11.app? how?
  • The mouse unit needs to be checked.

• universal binaries (powerpc and i386)
  • the powerpc and i386 executables have to be created separately and then combined using lipo