[Lazarus] Cross-compiling for Raspberry Pi2

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk
Wed Sep 23 10:42:43 CEST 2015


Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 2015-09-23 05:18, Bo Berglund wrote:
>> 3) Next port to Lazarus on Linux (I have a Linux Mint virtual machine)
>> 4) Finally port over to Raspberry Pi
> 
> And you'll most likely find that the last step doesn't require any extra
> development or "porting" - simply the setup of the FPC compiler. [Going
> with the assumption that most RPi's run a Linux distro]

 From practical experience with Raspbian, it appears that once FPC and 
Lazarus are on an RPi the overall system behaves like any computer. 
Perhaps not quite as fast as a modern x86, but the difference is 
quantitative not qualitative.

That might not be the case with other distreax.

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