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Interesting stuff. Perhaps I can use this to learn retro game programming with Pascal. So the 1st question: how to build the compiler?

I'm still navigating the github repo and didn't find any specific readme/makefile. Perhaps I missed something...

It provides a binary already compiled on bin folder.

Also most likely fpc src/mp.pas takes care of compiling everything.

Thanks.

  wc mp.pas 
  52411  186123 1638175 mp.pas

I see references to cc65—hopefully this is not needed. Perhaps, it uses features from the macro assembler ca65.

I think cc65 is a popular C cross compiler for 6502.

Maybe Mad Pascal translates Pascal to C, then uses cc65??

I'm on macOS, so gotta build the thing from source since there's no mac binary on it.

And fpc src/mp.pas produced some errors. Oh well. Gotta check at weekend.

Looking at the assembler (https://github.com/tebe6502/Mad-Assembler), it looks like it uses Delphi, so might do it,

    fpc -Mdelphi -vh -O3 mp.pas