[fpc-pascal] Profane question: can I use the IDE for another compiler/debugger?

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Thu, 12 Jul 2007, schreef Arjan van Dijk:

> Question:
> 
> Can someone from the development team tell me if the Freepascal IDE can be
> told to
> call a FORTRAN compiler instead of Freepascal, and use gdb instead of the
> Freepascal debugger? Just like the Freepascal website can be switched from
> english to dutch, I would like to be able to switch the IDE from Pascal to
> Fortran.

Not without programming. Both the compiler and debugger are built into the 
IDE and as of such the IDE cannot be configured to use a different 
compiler. The source code of the IDE is flexible enough to allow adding 
Fortran facilities, but it would keep you busy for a while.

Daniël