FPC 2.6.0 released!

[marcov]

Hello,

first, FPC core wants to wish a happy 2012!

To start the new year with a bang, a new major release
of Free Pascal, version 2.6.0, was uploaded to our FTP servers.

Changes that may break backwards compatibility are documented at:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.6.0

For Downloads, please use the FTP server at

ftp://freepascal.stack.nl/pub/fpc/dist/2.6.0/

and sourceforge

https://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/

as much possible.

Enjoy!

The Free Pascal Compiler Team


                            Free Pascal Compiler

                                Version 2.6.0

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                              What's New in 2.6.0
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Free Pascal 2.6.0 is a new major version of the Free Pascal compiler.

Please also see http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.6.0 for a list
of changes that may affect the behaviour of previously working code, and
how to cope with these changes.

Some highlights are:

Platforms:
  * iPhoneSimulator target

Compiler:
  * Many new language features:
     * Objective-Pascal dialect, supported on all Mac OS X and iOS targets
     * constref parameter modifier for "const by reference"
     * Pascal boolean types with multiple sizes (boolean16/32/64)
     * ISO 7185 language mode (except for I/O). Features amongst others:
        * nested procedure variables
        * non-local goto's
     * Mac Pascal mode improvements
        * nested procedure variables
        * univ modifier
     * Intrinsics
        * sar (shift arithmetic right)
        * bsf/bsr (bitscan forward/reverse)
     * Delphi compatibility mode improvements
        * Nested types, class variables and class local constants
        * Advanced records syntax (no constructors yet)
        * (for..in) Enumerators in records
        * Class and record helpers
        * Generic records, arrays and procedural types
        * Delphi-compatibility of generics improved
        * Scoped enumerations
        * Custom messages for "deprecated" directive
        * Ability to use "&" for escaping keywords
  * New ARM code generator features
     * ARM VFPv2 and VFPv3 floating point unit support
     * Thumb-2 support

Packages:
  * Many improvements to the rtl
  * Many improvements to the database units (fcl-db)
  * Objective-Pascal interfaces to Foundation, AppKit, CoreData and WebCore
  * OpenGL headers updated to OpenGL 4.0
 
Details about these new features can be found at
http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_New_Features_2.6.0

See http://bugs.freepascal.org/changelog_page.php for the list of reported
bugs that have been fixed in this release.

[IPguy]

Does anyone have a schedule when the snapshots will include one with 2.6.0?  Hopefully, the 0.9.31 train.

[bonmario]

For Downloads, please use the FTP server at

ftp://freepascal.stack.nl/pub/fpc/dist/2.6.0/

and sourceforge

https://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/

as much possible.

Great !!!
Someone knows where i can found files deb for Ubuntu 64 bit?

Thanks, Mario

[BigChimp]

Thanks, Marco & team, for all your effort!

[miquelmatas]

Does anyone have a schedule when the snapshots will include one with 2.6.0?  Hopefully, the 0.9.31 train.

Go to ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/snapshots/

[theo]

Thank you!
It works great here.
Lazarus 0.9.31 r34537M FPC 2.6.0 x86_64-linux-gtk 2

[Ocye]

Great news for the new year, thanks!
But why is there only a crosscompiler for win64?

[Leledumbo]

But why is there only a crosscompiler for win64?

Perhaps because that's the most common target for win32?

[ahmetnurideniz]

thanks for all.

[Ocye]

Perhaps because that's the most common target for win32?

Okay, but I still look for a native win64 compiler (ppcx86.exe). Of course I could compile it from source by myself.

[Blaazen]

Good job, thanks to FPC team.

But what is now recommended compiler for the Lazarus trunk (SVN 0.9.31) ?

I use FPC 2.5.1 r19956 and it works very well (Free Pascal Compiler version 2.5.1 [2011/07/25] for x86_64).
Should I move to 2.6.0, 2.7.1 or stay with 2.5.1 ?

Thanks.

[theo]

But what is now recommended compiler for the Lazarus trunk (SVN 0.9.31) ?

I have Lazarus 0.9.31 r34537M FPC 2.6.0 x86_64-linux-gtk 2 here and it works fine.

However, Lazarus has a problem if you use some of the new features.
For example, it does not like the new class helper syntax.

[felipemdc]

But what is now recommended compiler for the Lazarus trunk (SVN 0.9.31) ?

Lazarus has currently 5 supported FPC versions: 2.4.2, 2.4.4, 2.5.1 (January 19th 2011), 2.6.x, 2.7.1 (only new revisions)

[Blaazen]

@theo & felipemdc

Thanks.

[bonmario]

Great !!!
Someone knows where i can found files deb for Ubuntu 64 bit?

Thanks, Mario

Some news?

Thanks, Mario