B. Resources For Use With GPC.

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GNU Pascal Drawing

Here is our GNU Pascal drawing as a small JPEG, with and without a frame, as a large PNG image (10 KB) and as an EPS file (45 KB).

Due to patent problems we do not use GIF files. Fortunately the PNG format, the successor of GIF, does not have this problem -- and introduces better compression and more advanced features anyway.

By the way, the color gradient that makes our page background is a JPEG of only 551 bytes.

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PENG

PENG is an integrated development environment (IDE) for GNU Compilers and other purposes on any platform supported by GPC, written by Frank Heckenbach. The home page of PENG is

http://fjf.gnu.de/peng.html.

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RHIDE

RHIDE is an integrated development environment (IDE) for GNU Compilers on DOS (DJGPP) or Linux, written by Robert Hoehne. The home page of RHIDE is

http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~sho/rho/rhide.html.

GRX

GRX is a graphics library for C and GNU Pascal (now unsupported for Pascal), including a somewhat BP compatible `Graph' unit, written by Sven Hilscher (see section A. Contributors to GNU Pascal.). To get it, please ask on the GPC mailing list.

Although GRX is distributed with DJGPP, a DOS programming platform, it is portable to Linux with SVGAlib and to all Unix-like systems running the X11 window system. A port to MS-Windows 9x/NT is (or was?) being worked on.

Database units

GNU Pascal units to access MySQL, GNU DBM and PostgreSQL databases are available in

ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/home/lange/

Gtk unit

GNU Pascal units for the GTK+ and GTK+ GL libraries are available in

http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~nicola/GtkUnits

ISO standards

The standard specifications of ISO-7185 Standard Pascal and ISO-10206 Extended Pascal are available in PostScript format at

ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Pascal/

Please note that Standard Pascal is not the same as Borland Pascal nor a subset of it. See section 2. Some of GPC's most interesting features. for examples of Standard Pascal features that are missing in Borland Pascal.

The ANSI-ISO Pascal FAQ (132 KB) by Scott A. Moore discusses the differences between both dialects in detail.

Protect your freedom!

Programming activities of small companies and individuals are threatened by software patents. If you are a programmer, you are in danger, too! Your employer or yourself might be sued by a large company holding a patent on some ideas you are using in your programs. (You need not use foreign code in order to become vulnerable.)

For more information look at

http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/