[Lazarus] windows rt

[Sven Barth]

On 12.05.2013 14:19, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
>> ok if you allocate the memory using functions from the Windows API which are
>> available for WinRT)
>
>>From what I read what is available for allocating memory in WinRT is
> malloc from the Visual C RTL.

Yes, nevertheless the RTL needs to be adjusted for this, because the 
heap manager uses the HeapAlloc function from kernel32.dll and not the 
Visual C RTL.

>>> Also, does anyone know if the executable format at least in win rt is the
>>> same? pe format and available in both executable and dll forms?
>> It's the same.
>
> This part is really good! So one could theorically use the win32
> binutils and just copy the existing RTL and delete all calls to the
> WinAPI and substitute it to Visual C RTL calls to make a quick and
> dirty port ...

The big work of a WinRT port of FPC is exactly this substitution of API 
calls. Adding a new target to the compiler and the build utilities is 
easy. Implementing the RTL is the hard one and you'll have to do that no 
matter whether you do a "quick and dirty" port or a real one. In both 
cases you'll need to research the correct function to use and the 
correct way to pass in or retrieve data.

Regards,
Sven