[Lazarus] Cross-compiling for Raspberry Pi2

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Thu Sep 24 11:59:52 CEST 2015



On Thu, 24 Sep 2015, Sven Barth wrote:

> Am 24.09.2015 09:44 schrieb "Michael Van Canneyt" <michael at freepascal.org>:
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>> On Thu, 24 Sep 2015, Sven Barth wrote:
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>>> Am 24.09.2015 05:24 schrieb "Bo Berglund" <bo.berglund at gmail.com>:
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>>> Since you plan to port to Linux a word of caution: the "Windows" unit
>>> doesn't exist there (and "GetTickCount" does neither), so you either need
>>> to use platform specific functionality from the "BaseUnix" unit or cross
>>> platform one from "SysUtils" and friends.
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>> GetTickCount(64) exists in sysutils.
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>>> You should maybe also tale a look into using conditional compilation
> using
>>> "$ifdef" and the defines the compiler already provides for you (e.g.
>>> "windows", "linux", "unix", "cpui386", "cpuarm", etc.).
>>> Note: in 3.0.0 TThread provides the cross platform class functions
>>> TThread.GetTickCount and TThread.GetTickCount64.
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>> Which simply refer to sysutils.getTickCount(64).
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> Ehm right... I forgot about them despite having added them myself. :P

Indeed. That is why I was slightly surprised to read your answer :)

Michael.




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