[Lazarus] Windows CE

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

patspiper wrote:
> On 23/05/15 16:20, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> patspiper wrote:
>>> On 22/05/15 09:59, Koenraad Lelong wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I could be able to purchase a number of second hand intelligent 
>>>> barcode scanners. I have project in mind where I could use such 
>>>> devices.
>>>> The scanners run Windows CE 5. Is it possible and advisable to 
>>>> develop for these devices using Lazarus ?
>>>> I know Lazarus has support for Windows CE, but at the moment I don't 
>>>> find which versions are supported.
>>>
>>> Lazarus (LCL) supports WinCE. I use it for Windows Mobile 6.5.
>>
>> To what extent does the choice of CPU matter?
>>
> In what sense?

Sven mentions x86. I see Loongson (MIPS-compatible) runs it. There was 
ARM, obviously, and I think there was some other obscure architecture. 
In the case of ARM, and I'm particularly thinking about Linux on the 
Raspberry Pi here, there's different subarchitectures.

So I think there's a real possibility that there's CE-compatible boards 
which could give FPC problems. I'd be happy to be told that's wrong.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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