[fpc-pascal] pascal on macbook

[Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho]

I'd say yes. Free Pascal works very well with Mac OS X. Here are
instructions to install it:

http://www.freepascal.org/fpcmac.var

After installing Free Pascal, I'd recommend you to download the latest
subversion Lazarus and then build the Carbon native Lazarus IDE. It's
a native Mac IDE, and works very well. Instructions here:

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Carbon_Interface#Getting_a_.22carbonproof.22_Lazarus

There are also some snapshots available if you don't wish to build it
yourself. Lazarus requires installing the fpc source, which is
available in the Lazarus downloads page:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=89339

Note: I recommend installing only fpcsrc (and maybe fpc if not already
installed) from the website above. Lazarus 0.9.24 for Mac OS X was
released before the Carbon interface improved, and it's not native.
With the current development of the Carbon interface I recommend that
it be used instead.

Information about what is Lazarus and how it can be used can be found here:

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Overview_of_Free_Pascal_and_Lazarus

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Tutorial

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Documentation

Do you have a Intel or PowerPC machine? And what kind of software do
you wish to develop?

If you wish to build software directly using the Mac OS X APIs instead
of via Lazarus, it's also possible. Carbon interfaces are available
and Cocoa bindings are being developed.

thanks,
-- 
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho