[Lazarus] Cross-compiling for Raspberry Pi2

[Michael Schnell]

On 09/21/2015 01:50 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Just to be clear, using threads in this case didn't require 
> Synchronize() either - because Synchronize() is purely there for GUI 
> apps, which this wasn't. 

Of course it is *possible* (it even is _possible_ to code a complete 
application with a hex editor :-) ) But this is a point of view I don't 
share at all.

To me it is a very bad idea to have the Lazarus users use completely 
different paradigms for common stuff like timers, 
Worker-Thread-responses, and - in the end - the makeup of a project (as 
a number of events scheduled by the infrastructure vs as a thing that 
needs a loop just for waiting on anything).

Nowadays, even very small embedded boards do have GUI support. So it's 
not very important to have a NoGUI application like I did (just for fun, 
when I still had some spare time). You simply can always tolerate a link 
to a GUI framework an let same do it's thing, even if nobody will ever 
see it.

-Michael