Editing Free Pascal (section)

=== Expansion ===
The initial 32-bit compiler was published on the [[Internet]], and the first contributors joined the project. Later, a [[Linux]] port was created by Michael van Canneyt, five years before the [[Borland Kylix]] Pascal compiler for Linux became available.

The DOS port was adapted for use in [[OS/2]] using the [[EMX (programming environment)|Eberhard Mattes eXtender]] (EMX) which made OS/2 the second supported compiling target. As well as Florian Klämpfl the original author, Daniël Mantione also contributed significantly to make this happen, providing the original port of the run-time library to OS/2 and EMX. The compiler improved gradually, and the DOS version migrated to the GO32v2 extender. This culminated in release 0.99.5, which was much more widely used than prior versions, and was the last release aiming only for Borland Pascal compliance; later releases added a Delphi compatibility mode. This release was also ported to systems using [[Motorola 68000 family]] (m68k) processors.

With release 0.99.8 the [[Win32]] target was added, and a start was made with incorporating some Delphi features. Stabilizing for a non-[[Software release life cycle|beta release]] began, and version 1.0 was released in July 2000. The 1.0.''x'' series<!--and the bug-fix/stabilization releases that followed, last, 1.0.10 in July 2003--> was widely used, in business and education. For the 1.0.''x'' releases, the port to 68k CPU was redone, and the compiler produced stable code for several 68k [[Unix-like]] and [[AmigaOS]] operating systems.