[Lazarus] FPC and Lazarus on ARM

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Tobias Giesen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I now have a netbook computer with an ARM processor running Ubuntu.
> Ideally I would like to install FPC and Lazarus on it and do native
> ARM development. I wonder if it might be possible. Can I cross-compile
> FPC to get a native FPC running on ARM?
> 
> Or at least can I cross-compile my app?
> 
> The target will be ARM-Ubuntu, not ARM-WinCE ;=)

I run both FPC and Lazarus natively on ARM. The major issue is ensuring 
that enough memory is available- a Lazarus build wants about 512Mb 
during link. I've got a couple of issues with the Lazarus IDE that I 
need to get to the stage where I can raise bug reports but lazbuild 
works fine.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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