[Lazarus] Cross-compiling for Raspberry Pi2

[Michael Schnell]

On 09/21/2015 04:42 PM, Bo Berglund wrote:
> I take your comment as meaning there are other platforms where FPC 
> also runs, right? 
Yep. You can always switch to another ARM/Linux board with not much 
porting effort.
> The intrument has already been modified by replacing the serial port 
> by an internal WiFi AP module which connects to the instrument via 
> RS232 and the outside world will get access via a TCP port on the AP 
> host. 
We (company) did tests with serial via WLAN (and Zigbee) and gave up due 
to lack of reliability. We very happily use DECT instead

> Only one unit deals with the physical layer and it has already a
> conditional to specify what kind of com port is used. That is where I
> have to tie in the conditional for TCP/IP comm using whatever socket
> implementation I find most suitable.
The data path of the Serial via TCP/IP link supposedly is just Telnet, 
i.e. just a TCP/IP Socket. So you really don't need Indy.

-Michael