[Lazarus] Compiling lazarus on arm-linux

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Koenraad Lelong wrote:
> Op 30-09-15 om 15:43 schreef Martin Schreiber:
>>
>> This is wrong, you need a eabihf compiler, either a patched FPC 2.6.4 or
>> better FPC 3.0.1 from here:
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mseide-msegui/files/fpcrossarm/
>>
>> Martin
> Thanks,
> 
> Although the link points to a crosscompiler, I managed to compile 
> lazarus on the odroid with binaries from your repo. I had to configure 
> the device to run without GUI because of lack of memory.
> Unfortunately, when I start lazarus, it complains it can't find the 
> fpc-sources, which is true, because I only have a number of binaries. 
> Can I just get the svn-sources and use these ?
> 
> And when I try to add packages in lazarus, I can't because of lack of 
> memory. So how can I add packages from the command-line ?

Add a USB memory stick and put a swap partition on it. Assume you need 
at least 512Mb overall memory to build Lazarus. 
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Native_ARM_Systems

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