[Lazarus] Handheld development

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Sven Barth wrote:
> On 26.07.2010 18:13, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> I was being asked about this the other day, the boss is thinking about
>> PDAs. Can anybody summarise where Lazarus is at, for both Native and
>> cross-development?
> 
> With Free Pascal itself you can compile for Windows CE i386 (not tested 
> that much) and ARM, iPhone and iPad (both ARM) as well as Linux on ARM.

So what is the problem with iPhone- apart from Steve Jobs? Is it purely 
licensing or is it something to do with getting apps into the App Store?

>> Apart from that Netbooks etc. running standard Linux should be OK,
>> presumably that covers the current generation of Palm.
> 
> On Linux you need to have enough RAM (mostly for FPC), a X window system 
> and either GTK(+) or QT to run Lazarus.

I've compiled and run Lazarus on an ARM-based Linux system with 32Mb RAM 
plus 512Mb swap. The thing to really avoid is the standard desktop 
environments- I was using FluxBox.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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