Credits

This page lists some of the people who have contributed to the Free Pascal compiler project. Of course, the list is not complete, as many, many people have used and helped us in the developmentof Free Pascal. We would like to thank all of you who submitbug reports (as well as patches) and generally encourageus to continue our work. Its all very appreciated.

Direct contributions

The following people made direct improvements to the compiler / runtime library and associated software.

Leon de Boer: Free Vision, Objects unit (rtl)
Armin Diehl: Netware port (rtl)
Casey Duncan: PowerPC routines (rtl)
Berczi Gabor: Initial IDE development
Sebastian Guenther: serial (rtl), ggipgraph (rtl) and several units in FCL
Tomas Hajny: OS/2 port, OS/2 maintenance (compiler,rtl)
John Lee: Snapshot creation and maintenance
Mark May: DOS unit for linux (rtl)
Mazen Neifer: sparc port (compiler,rtl)
Olle Raab: Mac OS Classic port (compiler, rtl), Mac Pascal dialect
Thomas Schatzl: Graph unit (rtl), GO32 unit (rtl), many other (compiler,rtl)
Balazs Scheidler: Objects unit (rtl), ex-mailing list administrator
Nils Sjoholm: Amiga port (rtl), debugging.
MH Spiegel: Objects unit (rtl)
Gernot Tenchio: Graph unit (rtl)
Erik WachtMeester: Inifiles unit (fcl)
Frank ZAGO: Object unit (rtl)
Gertjan Schouten: Sysutils unit (rtl)
Karoly Balogh: MorphOS port (rtl)

Thanks / Indirect contributions

John Hauser: Original softfloat package (converted to pascal, now used as FPU emulation layer)
Fred Fish: Original C code for generic math routines of RTL
Jean Philippe Odent: Original Pascal code for generic math routines of RTL
Ingemar Ragnemalm: Information on Macintoch Classic (m68k) architecture and on MPW 68k assembler
Johann Ruegg: m68k RTL routines (from Sozobon C)
Michael Schmitz: Account for linux-m68k development
Dale Schumacher: clib m68k copy routines
MCGV Stack: Help with the Unix and BSD ports, hardware donations, compiler farm hosting. Specially I'd like to thank
- Hennes Passman
- Johan van Selst
- Dean Strik
- Marc Olzheim
- Jilles Tjoelker
- Janjaap van Velthooven
- Serge van den Boom
- Jan-Willem Knopper
- Nick Brok
Menno Victor van der star: Original floodfill algorithm (graph unit)
Rolf Jansen: XCode integration kit, Mac OS Universal Interfaces