[Lazarus] FPC 2.4.2 and Lazarus

[Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis]

On Thu, 20 May 2010 12:26:03 +0200, Joost van der Sluis <joost at cnoc.nl>
wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 13:08 +0300, Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 May 2010 11:40:09 +0200, Joost van der Sluis <joost at cnoc.nl>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> < snip >
>> 
>> > But maybe it would be very useful if you help with the basic testing.
>> > When a release is build (relatively simple) you always have to test it
>> > on an 'empty' system. You could help with that.
>> > 
>> > And, offcourse, you could try to build a release right now, using the
>> > fpc-2.4.1 branch. For as many as possible releases. Marco has posted
>> > url
>> > which explain how to do it. And report all problems you encounter. So
>> > that the chances that 'we' encounter them when we are building the
>> > official releases, don't have any problems.
>> 
>> I'm already in the process of setting up a box with VMware ESXi 4. It
>> will
>> be a 
>> test bed and a build farm machine. It has a lot of RAM and is powerfull
>> enough to 
>> serve that purpose. 
>> 
>> Is it possible to give me a list of OS's you think i can help ? I can do
>> Linux, 
>> Windows (win32, win64, wince) and some OSX ( I also have installed 
>> hackintosh 10.5.8 on my machine on a spare disk ... ) 
> 
> Hackintosh could be easy for the first test, but I doubt Jonas will
> accept a release of fpc build on it. ;)
> 
> Take a look at the download-page of freepascal. What I miss is Linux 32
> and 64 bit. (rpm and deb based. Plus our own installer in .tar format)
> 
> And FreeBSD (32 and 64 bit, Marco?), arm-linux. 

I'll take a look and inform what i can done for those OS's. 

PS: For arm-linux i can give a try with my gumstix verdex pro XL6P, but i
never tried something like that with that COM.

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Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis
ArteSOFT