[Lazarus] Beagle Bone

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 17 Jun 2013, Michael Schnell wrote:

> Hi ARM experts,
>
> Did anybody yet use Lazarus to do a project to be run on a BeagleBone ( 
> http://beagleboard.org/Products/BeagleBone%20Black ) ?
>
> Either "native", or "cross" ?
>
> I would like to do this. The project I have in mind does not need to have a 
> GUI (nor any Android binding).
>
> Regarding development tools, I think I would prefer a complete Cross 
> development (fpc cross compiler and Lazarus remote debugging), But a native 
> Lazarus (usable via native hardware or vie VNC or similar) might also have 
> some nice aspects.
>
> ( In fact, regarding ARM, the utmost level I yet got working, was a native 
> fpc compiler that in fact was able to compile a "command-line" project, that 
> now nicely runs as a daemon on my QNAP home server. I (and an Austrian friend 
> I worked together with) never got a cross-compiler decently (i.e. without the 
> need to install the greatly oversized  - and supposedly license-restricted - 
> ARM cross tools by "Code Sourcery") going, and we did give up on trying to 
> make Lazarus work as a remote debugging IDE. )

Well, lazarus runs without problems on a Raspberry Pi.
The next issues of Blaise Pascal will feature a series about it.

The beagleboard is similar. I see no reason why it would not run.

Michael.