[fpc-pascal] Synaser on ARM

greim greim at schleibinger.com
Mon Feb 14 17:28:14 CET 2011


Hi a short howto for all trying to use the serial port on ARM Linux

After fighting several hours i was able to cross-compile for ARM (OMAP 3 
Gumstix Overo)
Most helpful (but not totally right for the OMAP i think) was:
http://www.eilers.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=78&Itemid=55
but some hints why and not only how would be fantastic

I was trying to compile a program for the serial port using the fantastic
synaser.pas
from Lukas Gebauer
http://www.ararat.cz/synapse/doku.php/download

unfortunately the linker always reported an error.

After several hours more i found a hint at

http://www.turbocontrol.com/simpleserial.htm
from Paul Brenemann

removing the
USE synafpc.pas
from synaser.pas (is not used at all in the Linux version)

In termios.inc Baud symbols over 460800 are not defined for
target cpuarm
,
so this must also adopted in the synaser.pas.

Now it is linking and running, great!

Regards

Markus Greim



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