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 some handy utilities for use with the free pascal compiler:
* data2inc convert binary/text data to include files;
* fpcmake create makefile from makefile.fpc;
* h2pas convert .h files to pascal units;
* plex/pyacc pascal lex and yacc implementations;
* ppdep create a dependency file for use with makefiles;
* ppudump dump the information stored in a .ppu (unit) file;
* ppufiles show needed files for units;
* ppumove place multiple units in a shared library;
* ptop beautify source.