[fpc-pascal] Windows on ARM, how fast it can be implemented?

[Sven Barth]

Am 27.03.2013 09:41, schrieb Marco van de Voort:
> In our previous episode, Sven Barth said:
>>> Well windows has only about 1.5% of the tablet market, and its
>>> doubtful if that will grow - plus, as mentioned, it's closed by
>>> design.  Then again, Apple's app store is restricted, and fpc supports
>>> that.
>>>
>> This is not about Windows apps. Support for WinRT (aka Metro) would be a
>> completely different topic. This is about running normal desktop
>> applications compied for arm-win32 on a Windows RT tablet and those
>> won't be found in the Windows app store, because you need to jailbreak
>> the Windows RT device to be able to run unsigned desktop applications.
> Does Metro btw make a difference between the visual, language and system
> libraries?   (like GDI/MSVCRT/win32 in Win32/64)
I've not looked at this in detail, but AFAIK you only have certain 
libraries and functions available and it will be checked by the Windows 
store and the OS that you don't load anything else that you shouldn't 
load... (you don't even have full access to the filesystem :( ). That's 
why a complete new OS port would be necessary to support WinRT...

Regards,
Sven