Lazarus is a cross platform visual Integrated Development Environment (IDE) which provides a Rapid Application Development (RAD) Delphi clone for Pascal and Object Pascal developers. Lazarus is the class libraries for Free Pascal that emulate Delphi.
Lazarus comes with the Lazarus Component Library (LCL), which contains platform independent visual components like buttons, windows, checkbox, treeview and much more. The LCL is platform independent, so you can write an application once and then compile for various platforms without changing code.
It is developed for and supported by the Free Pascal compiler.
Key Features
- Provides a customizable source editor and visual form creation environment.
- Package Manager.
- Debugger.
- Complete integration with the Free Pascal Compiler.
Website: www.lazarus-ide.org
Support: FAQ
Developer: Volunteers
License: GNU General Public License, GNU Lesser General Public License
Lazarus is written in Object Pascal. Learn Pascal with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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