[fpc-pascal] Cross compile from x86 to Pi

[Chris Moody]

On 08/15/2015 11:37 PM, Martin Schreiber wrote:
> On Sunday 16 August 2015 02:33:24 Chris Moody wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I think my project is almost done, wanted to see how fast it ran under
>> the Pi which its destined to be on. After spending a long time trying to
>> get it to compile there I decided I'd see if cross compiling may be any
>> faster.
>>
> I use MSEide in order to cross compile and do remote debugging from Linux x86
> to Raspberry Pi. With that setup it is possible to work on the X86 PC like
> locally on the Pi - solely faster.
> Linux x86 -> arm cross environments with cross FPC, cross binutils and cross
> gdb are here:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mseide-msegui/files/fpcrossarm/
>
> MSEide has a project template for cross-Pi development, please read
> MSEide+MSEgui README.TXT.
> For GUI on the Pi I use MSEgui which is extremely fast. Also MSEide runs
> amazingly fast on Pi, the problem is long FPC compilation times.
>
> FPC fixes_3_0 needs current git master MSEide+MSEgui from here:
> https://gitlab.com/mseide-msegui/mseide-msegui
>
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> Martin
> _______________________________________________
>
Thanks for that Martin, my app is actually just console based (I used 
Lazarus because I didn't want to use the text based IDE), would you 
still recommend this route?

Thanks,

Chris