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Best cross-platform IDE
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Lazarus has some fine points when it comes to using a single platform version. But its cross compiling capabilities are poorly documented and just are not worth the effort, no matter how you try to build a cross platform executable, even on Windows 32.64. It would appear the authors either don't test the same code they post, or have not done a clean install for quite some time. If you install Lazarus on Windows 64, it is impossible to build a Win32 executable. If you look at Free Pascal, the compiler engine, you will notice the compiler installs in \lazarus\fpc within lazarus, and in \FPC within free pascal. If you use the fpclazupd program, the fpc compiler installs into \development\fpc and lazarus installs into \development\lazarus. Too many inconsisteices, too many poorly or undocumented features. Just not worth the bother. Too bad for such a nice product. Wiki is out of date and little information on web. Those five star ratings must be from the authors, people who don't cross compile, or friends of the authors. Cross compilers get an F- for useability.
User Reviews
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Keep up this great project !!! Where can I donate?
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The best free environment in the world for multiplatform programming, impressive work in every way.
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Easy to create GUI applications. Lots of components ready to use. Good documentation. Active community.
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Great!
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Awesome IDE! * Fast installing * In-studio studio rebuilding (yes,yes, i know,it was in much older versions, than current) * User-Friendly Layout (d7-like by default, but you can change it by installing sparta_DockedFormEditor and AnchorDockingDsgn packages, and you'll receive full-configurable ide) * Useful debugger, with live asm code viewing * Simple cross-platform support: just set up required properties, or delete properties which is not supported by platform, install required package for compilation (if it doesn't) * Intuitive understandable menus, which doesn't run away so far your screen can't hold (in delphi menus has a kind of ugly unfit view, in lazarus it doesn't) * Useful component palette with parenthesis view * Package dependency tree view (as a structure, as a chart and as a tree list) * Fully centering adjustment, not the delphi-like (d-like: partially with some unpredictable lagging) * Full Unicode Support, even SynUni package included - for the unicode code editor support * Some of the features is not well-understandable at the first time, but it gets easier after a much little time than with Haskell, Delphi or Python. For me, as for non-professional delphi developer it is the best solution ever! I'll recommend it to my friends as soon as i explore it completely :) Last time i installed Lazarus before was in 2013, and for me it changed in a much better way, stay updating, developing and creating it, Lazarus Team, thanks for all! P.s sorry for the broken linebreaks, but sourceforge doesn't seems to support it As for someone, who looking for Win32 support, make a note: you need to install cross-win32 extension, which available in ftp://freepascal.dfmk.hu/pub/lazarus/releases/ , for example, or on the official downloads page in the project's website :)
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Lazarus is amazing, after a quick and simple installation, you can start programming - no complications, no extraordinary requirements, no mysteries. The Pascal language is easy to learn, and, when there is some problem, the IDE usually points out exactly where the error is, as clear as possible. Whenever I need to compile a project in Windows, I just take a copy of the same source code from my Debian machine, open it in the miserable one, press F9 and... voilà, the exact same program, compiled and running in a different operating system.
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The best RAD!
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The best open source Pascal rad
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a Very good Cross-plateform open soure IDE for Pascal
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Best Windows platform IDE for Pascal Development.
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Just great
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Очень крутая среда разработки! Мне нравится!
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Really rapidapplications development tool supporting multiple OS. Good VisualBasic replacement.
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Uma excelente ferramenta
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Very nice project! Great tool to develop efficient and fast Multi-Platform Applications
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This is so good. No issues so far. Everything went smooth, and was compiling my first testing product within a few hours. Single window mode would be nice.
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Nice.
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Best of Pascal IDE for crossplatform development.
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As a user of Delphi since 2.0 I am extremely happy with Lazarus. I can port my oldest stuff over to Linux with small effort, and the portability between systems is a delight. Thanks go to the community for their work, you are fabulous!
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Some problems for events managment between Windows and Linux architecture. Could it be possible to over ride Windows 32 bits memory managment ? Because i need to make conditional compilation for 32 bits Windows target and 64 bits Windows, 32 and 64 bits Linux target.
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Very good and comprehensive development environment, that allow to write application in one OS and compile in several (with few changes) others, is very good. Congratulations Lazarus!
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Very powerful IDE, as multiplatform as it gets.
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I have been tracking the Lazarus project along with Free Pascal for 15 years and watched it develop into a mature product. It is now very impressive what you can do with it and it truly is cross-platform today. Apps migrate from Windows to OS-X or Linux with typically a minimal amount of effort with the newer releases (>= 1.4). The latest versions of the Lazarus and FreePascal tools can be installed on a Raspberry Pi from source code. Keep up the good work!
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Love this project.
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wow !!! see also VRCalc++ OOSL by Adrix on sourceforge.net