[Lazarus] Cross-compiling for Raspberry Pi2

[Bo Berglund]

On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 17:24:50 +0200, Sven Barth
<pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:

>Am 21.09.2015 16:42 schrieb "Bo Berglund" <bo.berglund at gmail.com>:
>> Unfortunately since the existing code is built on non-blocking serial
>> communications and events to handle the data reception I am at a loss
>> right now concerning what TCP socket component to use.
>> Indy is blocking, synapse is blocking and ICS being non-blocking is
>> not open for commercial use and even so not really maintained for FPC
>> either...
>
>You could take a look at the TInetSocket of the ssockets unit which is part
>of FPC (at least in 3.0.0, don't remember about 2.6.4).

I tried to find information on this but it seems a bit difficult...
Since I have Lazarus installed in my Win7 PC it would be good to know
where in the installation I might find the units for this component.
A search from the top of Lazarus finds a number of files with socket
in their names but no ssocket file at all.
The sockets.pas file I found indicates that it is for OS/2 only

I also found a wiki page http://wiki.freepascal.org/Sockets where some
info could be gleaned.
But I am worried that this component actually is TEXT oriented such
that it strips off/adds line endings to whatever is sent/received...

Could you confirm that the TSocketClient can actually handle raw
binary data such taht one can send/receive a binary file over the TCP
connection?
If tha is the case then it might just be what I need to implement my
simple serial port interface via TCP/IP.


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden