[Lazarus] Raspberry Pi bundles now available

[Donald Ziesig]

Hi Anthony,

What version of Lazarus is installed with this script?

Thanks for the great work.

Don Ziesig

On 12/06/2015 10:18 PM, Anthony Walter wrote:
> I've uploaded a few Raspberry Pi files and scripts at 
> http://www.getlazarus.org
>
> This is a minimal fpc 3.0.0 compiler. It's stripped down to be small 
> and only includes the compiler, the text mode IDE, and the run time 
> library. It's a good starting point on the Raspberry Pi if you want to 
> do command line compiling using only the rtl or if you want to use it 
> as a starting point for building the fpc trunk or other compiler 
> branches on your Raspberry Pi. Total install size will be 45MB, for 
> those of you conscious about using up the limited space on your Pi's 
> SD card.
>
> http://cache.getlazarus.org//archives/fpc-3.0.0.raspberry-min.tar.gz
>
> Just download the above then "fpc-3.0.0.raspberry-min.tar.gz && 
> ./setup.sh". The setup does not need super user rights. It will let 
> you choose a fpc compiler installation location, somewhere under your 
> $HOME, and give you the option to create a shortcut to a terminal 
> where the fpc environment is ready for you. That is with the minimal 
> fpc 3.0 in your path and fpc.cfg environment variable configured.
>
> Another, possibly more useful bundle I've created is Free Pascal 3.0 
> with Lazarus for the Raspberry Pi. I've taken great care to reduce the 
> install size of both fpc and Lazarus with this bundle for the Pi.
>
> I've eliminated a lot of fpc packages which don't make sense to have 
> on a Pi. All cross platform package and runtime files have been 
> removed (I don't imagine people cross compiling from the Pi to say 
> Windows for example). I've also eliminate the lazarus tool sources, 
> source images files (res files remain), and quite a few components 
> which are very unlikely to be used on the Pi. Basically I've gotten 
> the install size from a full fpc and lazarus from 1.5GB down to around 
> 216MB.
>
> If you're interested in trying this version of Free Pascal 3.0 with 
> Lazarus, here is where you can get it:
>
> http://www.getlazarus.org/setup/?download#raspberry_pi
>
> If you have a Pi, just follow the instructions in the setup script. 
> You can choose your install folder and have the option to creaate a 
> application shortcut you can pin to the Pi menu,
>
> In the next week I'll be working on updating the other platform 
> installers to include a minimal versiomn, as well as updated install 
> scripts where you can choose you install folder and create more 
> shortcuts, be they fpc terminal shortcuts or applicationd esktop 
> shortcuts.
>
> Pi users, if your interested I am developing an SDL 2 installer along 
> with a few bare demos which should work with either the minimal or the 
> more complete compilers mentioned above. Let me know if you're 
> inerested in using the SDL 2 on the Pi and I may setup a forum for it.
>
>
> --
> _______________________________________________
> Lazarus mailing list
> Lazarus at lists.lazarus.freepascal.org
> http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.lazarus-ide.org/pipermail/lazarus/attachments/20151218/a9172a47/attachment-0003.html>