Package List

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This particular page is about the packages directory in FPC source where all non-RTL packages are kept.

For other meanings of Package in the combined FPC/Lazarus projects see Packages(disambiguation).

• a52 - Unit for A-52 stream decoder. See SourceForge Page liba52
• amunits - Amiga related units (68k?)
• aspell - Aspell header unit.
• bfd - Header to GNU Binary File Descriptor library (part of binutils)
• bzip2 - bzip2 decoding. Turbo Pascal object, standalone, not a header.
• cairo - Headers for cairo, a vector graphics library with display and print output. (GTK related, win32 prepared)
• cdrom - A linux/windows unit to detect cdrom drives, and get a list of TOC entries (Linux version=Ancient?)
• chm - .CHM helpfile reader/writer package. Used for textmode IDE, fpdoc, lazarus chmhelp component/package.
• cocoaint - Interfaces to Mac OS X Objective-C frameworks using the Objective-Pascal syntax
• dbus - Headers for dbus inter-process communication library. See also the FPC and DBus article
• dts - libdts headers, which provides a low-level interface to decoding audio frames encoded using DTS Coherent Acoustics
• fcl-async - Provides Unix-only units for asynchronous input/output.
• fcl-base - Contains a number of units that are either really "base" functionality or more misc stand-alone units.
• fcl-db - FCL Database support (including sqldb and tdbf)
• fcl-extra - FCL former fcl-base parts with many dependancies. Currently Daemon/service unit "daemonapp".
• fcl-fpcunit - FCL FPCUNIT testing framework
• fcl-image - FCL fpimage, fpcanvas generic image support plus helpers.
• fcl-json - A JSON (Javascript Object Notation) implementation
• fcl-net - Networking parts of the FCL, including the former netdb - DNS resolving
• fcl-passrc - Units for dealing with Pascal source files
• fcl-process - Provides an easy way to start and manipulate the running of other programs (processes) by your application.
• fcl-registry - Provides access to the registry
• fcl-res - Provides resource handling for various executable formats
• fcl-web - A server side web system for FPC
• fcl-xml - XML, XHTML and HTML sax based parsing, related DOM units and writers.
• fftw - FFTW - Fastest Fourier Transform in the West library (so apparantly the Eastern one is faster?)
• fpgtk - Old fpgtk framework, used to be used for fpde (documentation editor).
• fpindexer - Text, Pascal, HTML, database indexer with database/flat file backend.
• fpvectorial - A library for reading, writing and modifying vectorial images.
• fpmkunit - Linkable parts of fpmake and fppkg subsystem
• fv - Free Vision is an application framework that allows you to design user friendly text mode applications.
• fuse - Bindings for libfuse, a library of a daemon that allows implementations of filesystem(-mapping)s in userspace
• gbaunits - Gameboy Advance libraries
• gdbint - Interface to gdblib. (static linking to GDB), for the IDE.
• gdbm - Interface to the GNU database system. (libgdbm)
• ggi - Interface to libGGI (General Graphic Interface)
• gmp - interface to libGMP (GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library, library for handling "big" numbers)
• gnome1 - Headers for older Gnome-1 version, Gnome is a desktop library.
• graph - Implementation of Graph unit compatible to that one originally available with TP/BP
• gtk1 - gtk1 headers
• gtk2 - gkt2 headers
• hash - Contains implementations for crc, md5, NTLM (1?) and, under Linux, crypt. Crypt might be better used from pkg "user"
• hermes - Port of the "hermes" library. Graphics related
• httpd13 - A translation of the Apache 1.3.x headers to develop modules.
• httpd20 - A translation of the Apache 2.0.x headers to develop modules.
• httpd22 - A translation of the Apache 2.2.x headers to develop modules.
• ibase - Interbase and Firebird headers
• imagemagick - ImageMagick headers for pascal.
• imlib - A dynamic image creation library. See Imlib documentation. (N.B. this is different from Imlib2)
• iconvenc - A header translation of the iconv library headers.
• ldap - Headers for OpenLDAP - An implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. See OpenLDAP Homepage
• libc - Deprecated Kylix compatibility lib. Linux/x86 only. See libc unit
• libcurl - A header translation of the libcurl library headers
• libgd - GD is an open source code library for the dynamic creation of images. See LibGD Homepage
• libndsfpc - Nintendo DS libraries
• libpng - Interface to the libpng library. This library can be used to read/write/manipulate image files in PNG format
• librsvg - Free, Open Source SVG Rendering library. See page in Gnome.org
• libxml2 - Headers for Libxml2, the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project. See libxml2 Homepage
• lua - Headers for lua scripting language
• mad - libmad header, (MPEG Audio Decoder) Also part of openal now?
• matroska - An extensible open standard Audio/Video container. See Matroska Homepage
• modplug - headers for modplug decoder. see sourceforge page ModPlug XMMS Plugin
• mysql - Headers for mysql database client library for several different versions
• ncurses - General unix terminal support library.
• newt - Erik Troan's newt text-mode windowing toolkit
• numlib - Numeric math lib (TP dialect) from TU/E.
• odbc - Headers for ODBC library.
• objcrtl A package that is enabled for Darwin/i386/x86_64/arm but not for PPC/PPC64. "Objective-C Runtime-Library"
• oggvorbis - An open music codec and container format. See OggVorbis Homepage
• openal - A cross-platform 3D audio API See OpenAL Homepage
• OpenCL - Headers for Open Computing Language
• opengl - An interface to OpenGL (Open Graphics Library)
• openssl - Headers for openssl, a secure sockets library.
• oracle - Headers for oracle (version here) database clientlibs,
• os2units - Interfaces to various libraries available under OS/2 and eComStation
• palmunits - Palm OS SDK 4.0
• pasjpeg - A Pascal conversion (thus without dependancies) of the libjpeg library.
• paszlib - A Pascal conversion (thus without dependancies) of the standard zlib library.
• pcap - Headers for the Packet Capture library
• postgres - Headers for Postgres (version here) database clientlibs
• proj4 - Headers for Proj.4 a Cartographic Projections Library. See Homepage
• ptc - Headers for OpenPTC, a high-speed low-level graphics access library. See Textmode IDE development
• pthreads - Headers for pthreads unix threading libraries.
• pxlib - A library to read and write Paradox DB files
• regexpr - Regex (regular expression) engine
• rexx - Interface to REXX SAA headers allowing to use Pascal code in REXX scripts
• sdl - Simple DirectMedia Layer
• sndfile - An interface to the linux (?) libsndfile library.
• sqlite - Cross-platform C library that implements a self-contained, embeddable, zero- configuration SQL database engine. See SQLite Homepage
• svgalib - An interface to the SVGA graphics library (Unix).
• symbolic - Expression parser with minimal symbolic manipulation
• syslog - Provides an interface to the Unix system logger Daemon
• tcl - An interface to the tcl/tk interpreter.
• univint - Mac OS X interfaces (Carbon, CoreServices; CoreFoundation, CoreAudio, CoreGraphics, CoreType, CoreVideo, AudioUnits, ...).
• unixutil - Some old kylix wrapper. Delete?
• unzip - Routines for unzipping .zip files.
• users - Various routines to work with Unix users and groups
• utmp - Various routines to work with Unix /var/run/utmp, the unix login logfile
• uuid - A basic libuuid header.
• winceunits - WinCE API
• winunits-base - Additional windows units. Mostly Delphi compat (activex, comobj)
• winunits-jedi - Very complete winapi header translation from Jedi
• x11 - Basic X Windows System (xlib) headers
• xforms - Basic XForms headers
• zlib - Basic interface to the zlib compression library.
• zorba - Zorba XQuery Processor. See Homepage

Documentation of packages that migrated to the RTL over time:

• cmem - Reroutes FPC memory handling to malloc/free.