which compiler?

[Ricardo T.]

Hello everyone    My name is Ricardo,a new member and a  newbie in programming .

I am a little confused about which FP compiler is the right one to download for my OS (win 8 and 10 64 bit)?

The  fpc-3.0.4.i386-win32.cross.x86_64-win64.exe  or the win32 32 bit version? For what i could understand,
i need to download the 32 bit first and then download the cross x86-64 as there is no native 64 bit version or something like that...

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[Pascal]

The  fpc-3.0.4.i386-win32.cross.x86_64-win64.exe  or the win32 32 bit version? For what i could understand,
i need to download the 32 bit first and then download the cross x86-64 as there is no native 64 bit version or something like that...

Welcome to the forum Ricardo!

Yes, you are right, if you want do build x86_64 binaries you need both.

You can have a look in the wiki for further information.

[ccrause]

A thread on compiling a native win64 compiler.

[Ricardo T.]

 Pascal, ccrause... Thanks guys 4 the reply 

Last night i installed the 32 bit FPC on my 64 bit OS since i read that is Ok to run 32 apps on a 64 system,
and everything went smooth.

I even wrote my first ever Pascal program...the Hello World code with some extra text lines that i added  . Pascal is an awesome language.

Is ok to keep using the 32 bit compiler on my 64 bit win system right? No harm in doing so right?

Also,the Lazarus IDE comes with the FPC included right? I did not install it since the IDE is a bit to much for
a beginner in my opinion.

For now i'm just using a text editor(NotePad ++) and the cmd to run the code 

[lucamar]

Welcome to the Pascal community! Since you're an absolutely beginner, maybe the Pascal Tutorial and the Lazarus Tutorial will interest you, as well as the rest of Tutorials in the wiki.

Also,the Lazarus IDE comes with the FPC included right?
[...]
Is ok to keep using the 32 bit compiler on my 64 bit win system right? No harm in doing so right?

Yes, Lazarus distributions always include Free Pascal, both binary and source code. And yes, it's OK to use 32 bit applications (including compilers) on 64 bit systems, although they incur a very slight penalty; and you can always use the 32 bit compiler to cross-compile your apps to 64 bit.

Pascal is an awesome language.

Yes, yes it is 

[Ricardo T.]

lucamar... Thank you Sir for the links...The Object Pascal tutorial is gonna keep me busy for a while. 

[avra]

Another nice introduction to Object Pascal:
http://newpascal.org/assets/modern_pascal_introduction.html