Lazarus is a RAD Object Pascal Development IDE for use with Free Pascal. It is the open source equivalent of the Delphi VCL, designed to be widget-independent and to work on any platform where Free Pascal can be found.
| Tags | Software Development Compilers Libraries Application Frameworks Text Editors Integrated Development Environments (IDE) |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL LGPL |
| Operating Systems | Windows FreeBSD Linux Mac OS X |
| Implementation | Pascal |
Recent releases


Release Notes: This is a bugfix release.


Release Notes: This is a bugfix release.


Release Notes: This stable release is based on fpc 2.6.0.


Release Notes: This release is based on the new fpc 2.6.0 release and contains a number of backported bugfixes.


Release Notes: This release is based on fpc 2.4.2 and contains a large number of new features.
Recent comments
17 Mar 2013 11:19
I have found this to be a very useful tool to create cross platform applications
12 Dec 2009 14:35
Is very useful for RAPID application development. Is very ready for general application development. Get yourself a used Delphi 4 -> 7 book from Amazon or Abe books and *alot* applies.
If you need to write basic utilities for import/export file cleanups, or other mind numbing conversions for use by clueless staff, this is the way to go!
There is even a basic WSDL component: wiki.lazarus.freepasca...
02 Apr 2000 22:01
Wep page has moved.
This project is now at:
From what I can see it is not quite ready to be used for application
development, it is a very exciting project that has an active mailing list
and lots of commits to its cvs tree. If you have experience with Delphi
Pascal and/or GTK drop by and see if you can help out. I have a feeling that
when this project has finished cooking it will change the way application
codeing is done on Linux for a lot of developers. C++ programers who
have convertedto Delphi, like myself, will know what I am talking about.
A powerful and pretty desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like systems.