Relevant Documents and Sites

More Snippets!

• Gitlab lazarus/examples. There are more snippets (gems) in the example folder of Lazarus installation. You can access them online too.
• Github gcarreno/TestThreading. Example of how to use the Class TThread and all of the threading tools available with Free Pascal.

Articles and eBooks - suitable for beginners

• #fpc #lazarus Free Pascal and Lazarus - A textbook on programming by Alekseev E.R., Chesnokova O.V., Kucher T.V, 2021.
• #fpc #lazarus Introduction to the Lazarus IDE by Lazar Hristov, 2024.
• #fpc Free Pascal From Square One by Jeff Duntemann, 2024.
• #lazarus Laz Planet Tutorials
• #fpc Tao Yue's Pascal Tutorial, also available on Free Pascal's wiki.
• #fpc Tutorials Point's Pascal Tutorial

Articles for experienced

• #fpc Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers
• #fpc Pascal cheat sheet from learnxinyminutes.com.
• #fpc Pascal Programming idioms from programming-idioms.org.
• #fpc #lazarus 5-part SQLdb tutorial
  • 0 - Database set-up
  • 1 - Getting started
  • 2 - Editing
  • 3 - Queries
  • 4 - Data modules
• #fpc #lazarus Working with SQLite3 database using SQLdb components

The Official Free Pascal Resources

The latest documents are available from Free Pascal site and GitLab FPC Documentation repo.

• FPC User's guide (PDF)
• FPC Programmer's guide (PDF)
• FPC Language reference guide (PDF)
• Run-Time Library (RTL) units reference manual (PDF)
• Free Component Library (FCL) units reference manual (PDF)
• Free Component Library (FCL) Resource units reference manual (PDF)
• fpdoc documentation tool reference manual (PDF)
• Reference chart with all compiler options and switches (PDF)

These were prepared and written by experienced folks. Hence, it might be a bit too technicals for some readers. Do make efforts and you will find gems in them.

The Official Lazarus IDE Resources

• See Lazarus' wiki for various docs on installation, IDE, tools, LCL, Components and other topics.
• Working with Lazarus and databases - https://wiki.freepascal.org/Databases

Documentation is converted to html from xml files - xml files are created using FPDoc Editor: https://wiki.freepascal.org/FPDoc_Editor. All xml files with documentation can be found here: https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/lazarus/lazarus/-/tree/main/docs/xml

If you want to modify the conversion to html start with: https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/lazarus/lazarus/-/tree/main/docs/html

Quoted from paweld 🇵🇱 — 19/11/2023 21:53