Pascal and compilation

Engines and Middleware Programming

Started by Xanather September 27, 2012 09:13 AM

2 comments, last by Xanather 11 years, 6 months ago

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September 27, 2012 09:13 AM

I am sorry if I was not supposed to post this here, but I have no idea where else to post this and this looked the most relevant.

My mate did a school programming task in pascal, while I did it in C#.

He wanted me to test his application and so I did, and to my surprise it ran fine without having to install any runtimes/redistributables!

Does the free pascal compiler compile to native/machine code just like C++, and not require any dependencies?

Just curious thanks : D

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wqking

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September 27, 2012 09:33 AM

Not sure which compiler you are talking about and it depends on compiler.
But usually a Pascal program is compiled to native standalone executable.
So you are correct.

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dilyan_rusev

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September 27, 2012 11:05 AM

Some compilers embed the runtime into the executable (e.g. go and freepascal IIRC), so you can just run it. Pascal is a systems language, and it does compile to native code.