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Some months ago I tried GPC, which came with my SuSE 5.1 distribution, but I could not use it.
Nor could I. That gpc-2.0 which comes with S.u.S.E. 5.1 is broken. I informed them, but got no reaction.
GPC DIDN'T ALLOW THE SIMPLEST TURBOPASCAL COMMANDS, f.e. assign().
Current (beta and alpha) versions do. See
ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/gnu-pascal/alpha/binary/ .
I have heared from a compiler which is VERY similar to TurboPascal and also includes an IDE. I guess, this is NOT GPC - am I right?
GPC has an IDE which is "VERY" similar to BP's one, see
http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~sho/rho/rhide.html .
But maybe they were talking about FPK Pascal. See
http://home.pages.de/~FPK-Pascal/ .
Anyway, I hope that GPC has also changed very much and become usable. Has it meanwhile become much more compatible to Turbo-/Borland Pascal?
Yes.
If it is still not BP-compatible enough for your purposes and you really need this-or-that feature that urgently, you can always
* try to implement it yourself (we would help you because we would also profit from that), or
* ask a friend to do it for you, or
* pay somebody (me, for instance;-) to do it for you.
Since things like that would not be possible with proprietary compilers like BP or Delphi (otherwise a Linux version would have be in existence for a long time), most people are not aware of this new situation: Yes, you really have the source code of the compiler!
BTW, this is how I joined the GNU Pascal project.
sqr(BTW), right now I am porting a project of 150000 lines from BP to GPC - not by just recompiling, but it makes progress as expected.
Greetings,
Peter