Free Pascal Compiler (FPC) Alpha version

I can report a successful first step to bring the Free Pascal Compiler (FPC) to RISC OS.
I was already ogling with Lazarus and FPC before but some post of Gerald Holdsworth brought me back on track and I decided to make a follow-up post on the Lazarus forum.

Some programmers from Lazarus offered their support for the RISC OS porting of Lazarus. After two weeks I had the luck to convince Michael Grunditz to have a look at the compiler.
During 2 month he managed to make the compiler to work. Although it is not a complete version it is able to compile Pascal programs and also to access RISC OS SWI’s. The memory system is not correctly implemented and it will crash after some time as memory is not freed.
So the current state of the compiler is only alpha version and “Experimental proof of concept” that the port to RISC OS is possible. We don’t take responsibility of any data loss as it can crash RISC OS and we also don’t need error reporting.
Crashes can be expected so save your valuable data before you compile or run a Pascal program.

You can download the Alpha version of FPC here:
Download FPC for RISC OS here

Who wants to follow the development can have a look at the Lazarus/FreePascal forum:
Link to Lazarus forum discussion about RISC OS version of FPC

I am looking for more programmers who are willing to join to finalize the FPC to work on RISC OS.
There is still work to do on the compiler but the much more work will be to implement the GUI of Lazarus and its Widgets.
Contact: info@riscoscloverleaf.com