Hello Eric!

27 Jun 96 22:25, Miguel Cardenas wrote to Eric Rusk:

 ER>> Does a Pascal compiler for OS/2 exist?

Virtual Pascal or Speed Pascal.

According to my experience (hence in the "for what it's worth" department),
VP is better if you want to port an existing dos application. Usually you
just add a use32 library, recompile and that's pretty much it. Speed needs
a bit more refinement. Virtual also supports the Turbo Vision kit.

Speed on the other hand is imo better for real OS/2 development. The newest
beta 2.0 behaves a lot like Delphi and supports lots of Delphiisms.

There is also the Cabot Pascal which is based on UCSD pascal, but if i'm
not mistaken it runs with some kind of P-code.

There is the old Stony Brook pascal for os/2 1.xx (16 bit) only.

There is also the unofficial patch made by the guys from the German
magazine CT which makes your BP 7.0 or 7.01 produce os/2 16 bits instead of
windows progs.
The patch is not supported by Borland, but they acknowledged its existence
and gave their green light for distribution.

There is the GNU pascal project, but you need GCC.
There is another pascal compiler which in fact produces assembly code, and
you need I believe it is MASM 6.0

And finally there is FPK Pascal, a x-platform compiler made by a German
student. So far it supports Dos, dos extended via go32, os/2 and Linux. Not
all platforms are at the same stage. Last os/2 was 0.5.2 and dos is up to
0.6.3 or something. It is pretty compatible with Borland as well.

depending on what you want to do, pick one. I have Borland patched and
Speed installed here. Normally Speed will compile everything, but if for
some reason it doesn't and I don't feel like tracking the reason and it
doesn't matter anyway and who cares, i'll just compile 16 bit :-))

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