[Lazarus] Obviously I'm missing something.

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk
Mon Dec 21 19:03:17 CET 2015


Donald Ziesig wrote:
> Hi All!
> 
> I have been beating my head against the wall trying to get the latest 
> versions of fpc and lazarus installed on an almost plain vanilla 
> Raspberry Pi.
> 
> The reason I say "almost plain vanilla" is that I have setup TightVNC, 
> ftp, svn, etc. on a 16GB SD card loaded with raspbian-jessie.  I have 
> this backed up on my laptop so I can restart from a usable configuration.
> 
> Up until now, I have fpc 2.9.4 and Lazarus 1.5 working on a NOOBS SD 
> Card (that is too small for what I need to do).  That version of Lazarus 
> has a bug that has been fixed in 1.6 so I would like to get 1.6 or 1.7 
> working.
> 
> 
> I am using an example tracked down from the FreePascal.org website. The 
> ultimate website is:
> 
> http://www.tweaking4all.com/hardware/raspberry-pi/install-lazarus-pascal-on-raspberry-pi-2/#getfpc 
> 
> 
> Going step-by-step from this site:
> 
> It says to install fpc 2.6.4 as the bootstrap compiler.  Another place 
> says 3.0.0 is the
> required bootstrap.  I can't find 3.0.0 for Pi so here goes with 2.6.4.
> 
> # sudo su
> # mkdir /usr/local/fpc
> # cd /usr/local/fpc
> # wget 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/Linux/2.6.4/fpc-2.6.4.arm-linux.tar 

No, that version of the compiler doesn't know about EABIHF. I suggest 
starting with the one I pointed you at the other day.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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