FreePascal Toolkit

FreePascal Toolkit is a VSCode extension for developing FreePascal applications.

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Requirements

Install Lazarus or FreePascal on your system.
The extendsion will auto search the path of fpc. If it's not be found, please set the system PATH environment variable, or set fpctoolkit.env.PP in vscode's user setting.
Install GDB Debugger - Beyond to debug your freepascal program .

Features

build freepascal program
- Build
- Rebuild
- Clear
explorer build tasks
- Customize build tasks
- Inherted from other task
code snippets
- A lot of snippets for code quick edit.
  - class
  - if-else
  - begin-end
  - ...
auto completion
gotoDeclaration, gotoDefinition
- Use ctrl+up,ctrl+down to jump between declaration and implementation.
class and function references
documentHighlight
- High light for source code
- Identify the compilation conditions for the definition. {$IFDEF} {ELSE} {$ENDIF}
code format with jcf cli
- Format source code
- Use jcfsettings.cfg as config. Will use lazarus's config if it installed.
quick fix
- Quick fix for (5025) Local variable "xxx" not used
auto rename symbols
- Rename function,procedure,variable and it's reference.
code complete
- Use ctrl+shift+c auto implement procedure .
code actions
- remove unused units

Pascal Language Server

from pascal-language-server

An LSP server implementation for Pascal variants that are supported by Free Pascal, including Object Pascal. It uses CodeTools from Lazarus as backend.

Freepascal Task Settings

You can add freepascal compile tasks by editing task.json in your .vscode folder.

The task's type is fpc. It contains the following configuration items.

Task settings

Field	type	Description
file	string	main program file. .lpr or .dpr
type	string	always be `fpc`
cwd	string	current path. Use wrokspace root if null.
cleanExt	string	file extensions for clean file in unitOutputDir. use * for clear all file. default:(.o,.ppu)
buildOption	object	build options
inherited	string	inherit from other task

buildEvent

Field	type	Description
before_build	string[]	Run commands before build
after_build_success	string[]	Run commands after build success.
after_build_failure	string []	Run commands after build failure.

buildOptions

Field	type	Description
targetOS	string	Target OS (-T). eg. `linux` `win64`
targetCPU	string	Target cpu family (-P). eg. `x86_64` `i386`
customOptions	string []	Any compile options for fpc.
libPath	string[]	Searchpath for libraries.(-Fl)
outputFile	string	Target file name.(-o)
unitOutputDir	string	Unit output directory.(-FU)
optimizationLevel	number	Optimization levels (-O)
searchPath	string[]	Searchpath for units and other system dependent things.(-Fu)
syntaxMode	string	Syntax Mode (-M)
forceRebuild	boolean	Re-compile all used units, even if the unit sources didn’t change since the last compilation.(-B)
msgIgnore	number[]	Is a list of messages numbers which should not be shown.(-vmxxx)

example:

{
	"version": "2.0.0",
	"tasks": [
		{
			"label": "debug",
			"file": "main.lpr",
			"type": "fpc",
			"buildOption": {
				"unitOutputDir": "./out",
				"customOptions": [
					"-dDEBUG",
					"-gw2"
				]
			}
		}
	]
}