[Lazarus] Windows CE

[Sven Barth]

On 23.05.2015 20:57, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> patspiper wrote:
>> On 23/05/15 16:20, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>>> patspiper wrote:
>>>> On 22/05/15 09:59, Koenraad Lelong wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I could be able to purchase a number of second hand intelligent
>>>>> barcode scanners. I have project in mind where I could use such
>>>>> devices.
>>>>> The scanners run Windows CE 5. Is it possible and advisable to
>>>>> develop for these devices using Lazarus ?
>>>>> I know Lazarus has support for Windows CE, but at the moment I
>>>>> don't find which versions are supported.
>>>>
>>>> Lazarus (LCL) supports WinCE. I use it for Windows Mobile 6.5.
>>>
>>> To what extent does the choice of CPU matter?
>>>
>> In what sense?
>
> Sven mentions x86. I see Loongson (MIPS-compatible) runs it. There was
> ARM, obviously, and I think there was some other obscure architecture.
> In the case of ARM, and I'm particularly thinking about Linux on the
> Raspberry Pi here, there's different subarchitectures.
>
> So I think there's a real possibility that there's CE-compatible boards
> which could give FPC problems. I'd be happy to be told that's wrong.
>

We currently don't support mips64-wince. If you should have a need for 
it, patches are welcome though. ;)

Otherwise it should merely require setting the target CPU 
subarchitecture correctly (mainly for ARM ones) and maybe a patch here 
and there if something is handled too Linux specific for now in the 
compiler.

Regards,
Sven