Welcome to Lazarus Lazarus is a Rapid Application Development tool for Free Pascal and currently runs on Linux, Mac OS X, BSD and of course Windows. It is freely available, open source and completely written in Free Pascal. The official Lazarus site is http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/. There is a wiki with a lot of information around Lazarus at http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/. Free Pascal can be found at http://www.freepascal.org/. The Lazarus Component Library is licensed under a modified GNU Lesser General Public License. The Lazarus IDE is licensed under the GNU General Public License. References for Lazarus: RTL - Run-Time Library (online) LCL - Lazarus Component Library (online) FCL - Free Component Library (online) Free Pascal documentation: USER - User's guide (online) PROG - Programmer's guide (online) REF - Pascal Language Reference guide (online) CHART - Command-line options and switches Reference chart (online) FPDOC - Free Pascal documentation tool manual (online) Online versions are always up to date.