lazarus-ide

Lazarus(1)                    Free Pascal RAD IDE                   Lazarus(1)



NAME
       Lazarus  - is a Rapid Application Development (RAD) for the Free Pascal
       Compiler (FPC) including an Integrated Development Environment (IDE).


SYNOPSIS
       lazarus


DESCRIPTION
       This binary is an integrated development environment for the Free  Pas‐
       cal  Compiler  (FPC) which is an advanced Turbo Pascal and Delphi (7.0)
       compatible multi-target Pascal compiler.

       The IDE uses FPC(1)

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

       The other targets are either based on older versions of the compiler or
       are still in development.

       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       out of date.


Usage
       The user interface of the IDE has been designed to be similar  to  Del‐
       phi.   It  provides  the user with a user friendly, but rather powerful
       editor, a form editor, an extensive on-line help system and a debugger.

       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 pro‐
       gram, during which 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 and therefore allows speedy development of code.


Help files
       No help files are provided by  default.  The  user  must  download  the
       Lazarus  and  Free  Pascal  documentation in HTML format and install it
       into the IDE  using  the  Help->Configure  Help.   Files  can  also  be
       installed  in  this  menu  and can be useful for source code that ships
       with HTML files as documentation.


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


SEE ALSO
              startlazarus(1) lazbuild(1) fpc(1)



Free Pascal                      19 April 2008                      Lazarus(1)