Package fpc: Information

The Free Pascal Compiler is an object pascal compiler supporting both
Delphi and Turbo Pascal 7.0 dialects as well as Mac pascal dialects.  It
provides a completely portable RunTime Library (RTL) available on many
platforms and compatible with Turbo Pascal, but also a platfrom
independent class based Free Component Library (FCL) adding many Delphi
extensions and interfacing many popular open source libraries.

Some extensions are added to the language, like function overloading.
Shared libraries can be linked and created. Delphi language extentions
like classes, exceptions, ansi strings and open arrays are also
supported.

This package contains dependency on all FPC packages provided on your
architecture. Experienced users may want to install only packages they
need, and can skip installing this metapackage.