Where is the GNU Pascal Compiler?

Question

On Ubuntu 10.04 I had installed the GNU Pascal Compiler (package gpc).

After moving to Ubuntu 12.04 / 64 bit I cannot find the package any more. Google and the GNU Pascal homepage did not help much.

So I wanted to ask if the package has been discontinued, renamed, or moved to a different repository.

Jorge Castro · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-05T20:54:17.603

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It appears that gpc was removed from Debian (and subsequently Ubuntu) in February 2011 due to the project being unmaintained/discontinued.

edited Jan 05 '13 at 20:54

answered Jan 05 '13 at 20:38

Jorge Castro

2

+1 This explains a lot. I think I will have to move to the Free Pascal Compiler (package `fp-compiler`). – Giorgio Jan 05 '13 at 20:54
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@Giorgio Or you can attempt to download and build `gpc` from source. (Or try to install an old .deb package...) – Eliah Kagan Jan 05 '13 at 21:05
@Eliah Kagan: True, I will give it a try. – Giorgio Jan 05 '13 at 21:07
The GNU Developers 2010 parting message named GCC major version migrations and general cumbersome C development as a reason (Later gcc started to also allow C++) – Marco van de Voort Jan 16 '23 at 18:40

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 25 '19 at 12:03

You can install the Free Pascal compiler alone using the command:

sudo apt-get install fp-compiler

...then invoke and run a simple program such as:

program Hello;
begin
  writeln ('Hello, world.');
end.

...using the following commands:

fpc hello.pas
./hello

score 3 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '15 at 19:48

3

PPA versions of the GNU Pascal Compiler for Ubuntu can be downloaded from https://launchpad.net/~ueter/+archive/ubuntu/gpc-3.4

edited May 23 '15 at 19:48

Jens Erat

answered May 23 '15 at 19:14

Peter Blackman

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 14 '17 at 16:22

3

Not exactly gpc, but if you don't mind an alternative, you could use Free Pascal. This will install the IDE and compiler:

sudo apt-get install fp-ide

Note that the IDE is terminal based. To start it from the prompt:

fp

answered Jul 14 '17 at 16:22

Nagev

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Or have a look at the Lazarus package, which is a more GUI IDE for Free Pascal – Marco van de Voort Dec 03 '19 at 19:31

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 20 '13 at 19:09

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you could try getting an rpm and converting it using alien, as per this post on the gpc mailing list: http://www.g-n-u.de/pipermail/gpc/2013-June/015249.html

quote:

I converted the Fedora package with 'Alien' and its working for me on Debian (64 bit).

answered Aug 20 '13 at 19:09

trevorBl

Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, [it would be preferable](http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/8259) to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference. – Braiam Aug 20 '13 at 19:35

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