[Lazarus] FPC and Lazarus on ARM

[Den Jean]

On Sunday 27 March 2011 23:13:37 Florian Klämpfl wrote:
> Am 26.03.2011 22:02, schrieb Tobias Giesen:
> > If anybody is looking for an ARM device, the Toshiba AC100 is pretty
> > cool. Around 200 EUR with Cortex A9 dual core and 512 MB RAM. It is
> > a netbook computer and has HDMI as well as USB. Mine has an 8GB SSD.
> 
> Hmm, would be a nice system to improve fpc arm eabi support on modern
> ARM CPUs :)

A long time ago I tried compiling Lazarus natively on the N900 (Maemo),
it didn't work due to some arm resource compiling problems. 
As cross compiling work like a charm, I did not try for some time.
Now with a recent trunk of fpc and lazarus, Lazarus compiles and runs
on the device. The advantage of Maemo is that it is a fairly standard
Linux (debian based, apt-get install whatever) 
with a Qt source compatible with Desktop Qt.

Nevertheless Lazarus on the device is not usable due to the many windows
of Lazarus that all get maximized and some other small problems.
Lazarus can compile and run the default application project.


Screenshots: 
The first screenshot is the alt-tab equivalent (composited window manager 
program/window switcher)
 
http://users.telenet.be/Jan.Van.hijfte/qtforfpc/N900/LazN900_AltTab.png
http://users.telenet.be/Jan.Van.hijfte/qtforfpc/N900/LazN900_Editor.png
http://users.telenet.be/Jan.Van.hijfte/qtforfpc/N900/LazN900_Main.png
http://users.telenet.be/Jan.Van.hijfte/qtforfpc/N900/LazN900_ObjectInspector.png

regards,

Den Jean