[fpc-devel] Palm OS Port

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Tue, 21 Feb 2006, schreef Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho:

> Hello,
> 
> I have a friend that might be interrested on porting Free Pascal 2.1.x
> to arm-palmos.
> 
> What would be the difficulties or necessary steps involved on this? Is
> it only a matter of working on the rtl/palmos directory?

Yes. You need to implement system dependend parts of the system unit, 
sysutils, video, mouse, keyboard etc.

> I understand that 1.0.10 used to work for 69k-palmos, is that right?
> But I couldn't find the source code for 1.0.10. Could that code be
> converted for the 2.1.x series?

I don't know if ever a working version was produced for 1.0. No release 
was ever done. The source code can be found here:

ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/olddist/1.0.10/source-1.0.10

While the 1.0.10 source might give you some ideas you should expect the 
code needs to be written from near scratch.

> Also, is there someone already working on this?

Not to my knowledge.

Daniël