[fpc-announce]Free Pascal compiler version 1.0.2 is officially out !

[Peter Vreman]

Hello,

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

    Version 1.0.2

of the Free Pascal compiler has been officially released.

Most important fixes since the previous (1.00) release:

- Smartlinking for win32 fixed
- Smartlinking speedup
- Memory requirements reduced
- Lot of IDE fixes
- Can't select wrong assembler output for targets
- overload directive support

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 !

Peter,
speaking for the whole Free Pascal Development Team
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Peter