Before Installation : Requirements

System requirements

The compiler needs at least the following hardware:

1. An I386 or higher processor. A coprocessor is not required, although it will slow down your program's performance if you do floating point calculations.
2. 2 Mb of free memory. Under DOS, if you use DPMI memory management, such as under Windows, you will need at least 16 Mb.
3. At least 500 Kb. free disk space.

Software requirements

Under DOS

The DOS distribution contains all the files you need to run the compiler and compile pascal programs.

Under Linux

Under LINUX you need to have the following programs installed :

1. gnu as, the gnu assembler.
2. gnu ld, the gnu linker.
3. Optionally (but highly recommended) : gnu make. For easy recompiling of the compiler and Run-Time Library, this is needed.

Other than that, Free Pascal should run on almost any I386 LINUX system.