The free pascal compiler is an object pascal compiler supporting both delphi and turbo pascal 7.0 dialects as well as mac pascal dialects. it provides a completely portable runtime library (rtl) available on many platforms and compatible with turbo pascal, but also a platform independent class based free component library (fcl) adding many delphi extensions and interfacing many popular open source libraries.

this package contains free pascal units for creating network tools:
- netdb : netdb unit for tcp/ip handling
- libasync : libasync unit for easy asynchronous io
- libcurl
- dbus: d-bus
- httpd-1.3
- httpd-2.0
- httpd-2.2
- ldap
- openssl : open ssl
- pcap