[Lazarus] [OT] Developing for Android with Pascal and Eclipse?

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Sat Mar 1 15:43:17 CET 2014


On 01.03.2014 02:06, leledumbo wrote:
> silvioprog wrote
>> Hello,
>>
>> I saw in a post on Facebook, but not tested:
>>
>> http://web.fastermac.net/~MacPgmr/pba/PbaStatus.html
>>
>> I don't know about.
>
> The JVM compiler is tested, and I've tested it myself as well. I don't use
> Eclipse though, the Android SDK has enough tools to build the required
> directory layout and building only requires Ant. This is actually the most
> native way to build Android apps, but you have to sacrifice some (a lot of?)
> normal Pascal features and use different syntax in many places. A lot of
> standard units are missing, and the chance you can reuse existing units is
> also quite small (depends on how the units are coded).

Patches regarding further language features (though AFAIK one of the few 
main missing ones is Writeln/Readln) and standard units support are 
welcomed ;)

Regards,
Sven





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