Lazarus: IDE for Pascal similar to Delphi

Lazarus It is a free clone of Delphi, the favorite IDE of those who program in Object pascal on Windows. It allows to migrate Delphi projects and has versions for Windows, Mac and Linux.

If you are a Windows Pascal programmer you probably know Delphi, the IDE developed by Borland. Is there a way to migrate your projects from Delphi to Linux? At the time, Borland tried to make this dream come true, releasing Kylix in 2006. It went as far as version 3 and included support for Object Pascal and C ++, but it never quite flourished.

Fortunately, there is a third application that can help us if our economy is not very comfortable: Lazarus. It is a project developed from Free pascal, "open source" and available for Windows and Linux.

Lazarus is, for those who don't know, a rapid application development environment (RAD). It is basically a clone of the Delphi environment for GNU / Linux. It is object-oriented and allows the development of programs in Free Pascal (a portable, free and open source Pascal compiler, which represents an alternative to the commercial products Turbo Pascal and Delphi). In short, Lazarus is an integrated environment (IDE), which unifies editing, debugging and execution tasks in a single tool.

Installation

En Ubuntu and derivatives:

sudo apt-get install lazarus

En Arch and derivatives:

pacman -S lazarus

En Fedora and derivatives:

yum install lazarus

It is also available in the official repositories of the vast majority of popular distributions.

Sure, there is always the alternative of download source code and compile it.

Last but not least, it should be noted that the project has a Wiki very complete in Spanish.