[fpc-pascal] FPC + fpGUI + Raspberry Pi = fantastic

[Marcos Douglas]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys
<graeme at geldenhuys.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I received my Raspberry Pi today, and had a bit of a play. I'm using the
> Debian 6 OS with my Pi. I downloaded the FPC+fpGUI ARM archive (only a 3.5MB
> download), packaged by Paul Breneman.
>
>   http://www.turbocontrol.com/easyfpgui.htm
>
> [Awesome work there, Paul. You can get much easier than than. Just unpack
> and you are ready to work.]
>
> It works fantastically well. I could compile all the fpGUI demos without
> me having to do anything extra in fpGUI. How cool is that! :-)
>
> All I had to do to get my projects to link successfully, was to install a
> few missing packages, which were not included with the Debian 6 distro for
> the Pi.
>
>   sudo apt-get update
>   sudo apt-get install libX11-dev libXft-dev
>
> I'll have to speak to somebody to see if they could include it as standard
> - after all, the Pi is meant for developers to play with. If anybody has
> contacts, please let me know.
>
> I even compiled and ran the more complex fpGUI apps like the GUI Forms
> Designer, DocView (help viewer), and Maximus (a sample fpGUI IDE). Even
> FPTest (my Free Pascal Unit Testing project works).
>
> We (our company) have some big plans for the Raspberry Pi, with a
> potentially huge deployment. The first tests with this device is very
> promising.
>
> Kudos must also go to the FPC team, for supporting ARM so well!
>
> Maybe with the Raspberry Pi and Free Pascal, we can get Object Pascal back
> on the map, and in the hands of young developers. After all, Pascal was
> initially designed as a teaching language - easy to learn, read and write.

Awesome!

Marcos Douglas