Lazarus For Linux

Lazarus is an open source, cross-platform and freely distributed software that provides a collection of class libraries for the FreePascal compiler, designed to emulate the Delphi programming language. It’s a RAD (Rapid Application Development) Object Pascal Development IDE (Integrated Development Environment).

Lazarus is the open source equivalent of the commercial Delphi VCL software, engineered to work on any platform supported by Free Pascal and to be widget-independent. It is designed to understand and compile Delphi syntax, which is of course OOP (Object Oriented Pascal), and provides users with a powerful source code editor that features code completion and syntax highlighting.

It features a drag and drop form designer that allows developers to easily create state-ot-the-art layouts, automatically synchronizes between the source code and GUI forms, allows you to easily and quickly navigate the Pascal source code, integrates a debugger and built system that lets developers to test, run and debug their projects directly from the IDE, and comes pre-loaded with various refactoring tools.

The software features a powerful plugin architecture that allow you to extend its functionality by installing third-party plugins, provides charting and reporting functionality, support for UTF-8 character encodings, i18n support, as well as various database frameworks.

Free Pascal is an open source compiler that runs on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, OS/2, 68K and other POSIX operating systems. It is written in the Delphi/Kylix, FreePascal, Object Pascal, Pascal and Lazarus programming languages.

The software is available for download as pre-built binaries for all GNU/Linux distributions that uses the DEB or RPM package format, as well as a universal sources archive that allows you to optimize and install the project on any other distribution of Linux. Lazarus has been successfully tested with both 32-bit and 64-bit hardware architectures on a wide range of computer platforms.