[Lazarus] Cross-compile on Windows for Linux Raspbian (Raspberry Pi) - what are the requirements?

[Giuliano Colla]

Il 24/11/2019 10:08, Bo Berglund via lazarus ha scritto:

> Since I never ever created an environment for cross-compiling on
> Lazarus I really need a simple to follow byt full description on how
> to accomplish the task. Is it even possible for RPi?

I can't help you as far as Windows is concerned, because we learned from 
experience to carefully avoid using Windows for any purpose other than 
testing applications which must run under Windows. But I can provide our 
experience with RPI3.

We installed Lazarus and fpc on Raspberry by using fpcupdeluxe. A few 
troubles if not using the latest version of fpcup, but then everything 
working just fine. We can develop natively; no lockups or whatever 
annoyance.

We did set up a cross environment on Linux (again taking advantage of 
fpcupdeluxe) and after a few struggling with the proper setting for the 
specific ARM flavour, again no troubles.

But as it is an annoyance sending back and forth binaries, we ended up 
with using a git repository in our server, thus sharing sources between 
Linux and RPI, and compiling natively on Linux for preliminary testing, 
and on RPI for final tests and production.

Hope that it helps.

Giuliano

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