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, along with a platform-independent class-based free component library (fcl) adding many delphi extensions and interfacing with many popular open source libraries.

this package contains free pascal units for creating network tools: dbus, httpd-1.3, httpd-2.0, httpd-2.2, ldap, libasync, libcurl, netdb, openssl, and pcap.