Computing: DOS, OS/2 & Windows Programming

Installing and running Free Pascal on OS/2.


Beside the old OS/2 development software, there are also actual programming environments, that may be used on OS/2. Year 2022 software to create programs for OS/2! The most interesting from my point of view is the Free Pascal compiler for OS/2, including a Turbo Pascal similar IDE (called FP ID) and a debugger. You can find a detailed description of the installation of FPC 3.2.2 on OS/2 Warp 3 in the Lazarus/Free Pascal Programming section of my site. This tutorial includes a work-around of the bug of the Readln function, that returns an empty input if the Crt unit is used. Use the following link to download my ReadCon unit.