So maybe you want to use C's pre-processor directives in FPC? Well son, I have the answer for you.
Let's take thia Pascal code and do some CPP directives within it.
#define progName HelloWorld
#define msg 'Hello world'
program progName;
begin
writeln(msg);
end.
Now we can take this file and type it in as standard input to the `cat` program and once you are done you flush that data out with a Ctrl+D.
So here is the command set:
cat | cpp > file.pas ; fpc file.pas
Now this should work (provided fpc doesn't interpret the #'s that cpp outputs).
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