[Lazarus] FPC and Lazarus on ARM

[Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Henry Vermaak <henry.vermaak at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was excited when I saw the AC100, but it comes with Android (!?) and it
> got spectacularly low reviews (10%, or so).  Seeing Ubuntu on it now sounds
> promising, though.

I have AC100 in my office. Remember that if you have Android installed
don't think that you will be able to use it as a development platform.
Android pretty much kills this possibility because:
* There is no user-acessible console
* Users cannot run native apps (like FPC, binutils, etc)
* No appropriate text editor, no appropriate IDEs
* Strict permissions
* No SDK which runs in Android (the requirements to get the Android
SDK working are huge anyway)

In short, if you just want to test installing software cross-compiled
from the PC, then you might just as well buy a phone. If you want to
actually develop on the platform, you really need to get rid of
Android and install a standard Linux. If you manage to do that, then
AC100 with a USB mouse might actually be a good ARM test platform for
developers.

-- 
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho