[fpc-devel] Cross compile Linux-N9 (arm-linux)

[Joost van der Sluis]

On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 21:11 +0100, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Joost van der Sluis <joost at cnoc.nl> wrote:
> > This is really nice, I can just run LCL (qt) applications on that phone.
> > Almost as easy as with WinCE.
> >
> > Joost. (Who is really happy with his new phone)
> 
> The sad part is that the platform was abandoned by Nokia and now is no
> longer supported by any significant smartphones manufacturer. Buying a
> N9 was in my plans, but I gave up when Nokia went to the dark side of
> the force.

I don't care what Nokia does, I bought the N9 just out of fun. And fun
it is.

> I am working hard on LCL-CustomDrawn so hopefully in the not so
> distant future LCL apps will support Android too very reliably.
> Actually will support almost anything since the porting requirements
> will be so dramatically reduced in comparison to now.

Working with Android may be interesting for commercial reasons, but fpc
is also my hobby, and then Android is not interesting at all..

Joost.