[fpc-other] Anyone using Orange PI

[Travis Siegel]

I didn't know there were precompiled versions of fpc for the raspberry 
pi.  I had to compile my own when I setup my pi2 nearly 2 years ago.  It 
wasn't difficult, but it did take quite a bit of time, even with the 4 
cpus going for the compile. :)

However, it is relatively easy, if a bit long of a process to compile 
your own fpc for the pi.

I didn't know about the orange pi.  I shall go take a look.  I haven't 
gotten my pi3 working yet, something is wrong with my image I think, or 
perhaps I'm not using a powerful enough power cable, though I thought 
the pi2 cable would work on the pi3, <sigh>.  I knew about the banana 
pi, and I've heard of others though I've not checked them out in detail, 
once I saw price wasn't comparable to the raspberry pi, but orange is a 
new one on me.



On 2/28/2017 2:28 AM, Bo Berglund wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 22:25:26 -0300, Andreas
> <andreasberger.516 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The company I work for will be realizing an embedded project using
>> Orange PI. I can use any tool I want, but the project will be on a
>> Orange PI (A very small chance of Raspberry PI). Does any one have FPC
>> running on Orange PI? If so would you be willing to help me get set up?
>> I am totally unpracticed in Linux, but am sure I can get into it.
>>
> I have not used the Orange Pi, but reading the site www.orangepi.org
> it seems to be a clone of the Raspberry Pi and it also seems like
> there are 9 different models of it.
> So in order to come further:
> Which exact model are you thinking of using?
>
> I have used FPC/Lazarus on a range of Raspberry Pi models now on RPi3B
> and it has worked just fine. One has to install carefully from the
> command line to get the proper versions, but I have written a script
> to do just that. It works on the Raspbian operating system (a Debian
> version) and basically does all you need to get the stuff on board.
> However, it uses a starting fpc compiler built for the RPi3B, which is
> downloaded from my site (since I could not find a suitable compiler
> only download). This may or may not work on an Orange Pi device...
>
> Warning:
> On their site's download page are listed a number of instances of
> Raspbian, but these are not the current Raspbian versions.
> The ones I found are from 2015-06-06, 2016-11-08, 2016-11-12 and
> 2016-11-16.
> So it seems likely they are tweaked versions of the "real" Raspbian,
> which might cause concerns down the line.
>
> Why not go with the original Raspberry Pi instead?
>
>


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