[fpc-devel] Building and running FPC natively on ARM under Debian "Lenny"

[Henry Vermaak]

On 20 August 2010 23:10, Mark Morgan Lloyd
<markMLl.fpc-devel at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
> Henry Vermaak wrote:
>
>> I've managed to get trunk working on my slug (also on debian lenny)
>> quite a while ago, so I hope it's still possible.  I was using trunk
>> to build a cross compiler, though.
>
> Thanks Henry. I've definitely had both FPC and Lazarus running natively on
> ARM in the past, but I suspect it was on Etch and that I ground to a halt
> when Debian started forcing the EABI transition. I do remember that I had a
> demo program for a Velleman K8055 interface board working on x86, SPARC and
> ARM... can't remember whether I ever tried it on PPC since I've only got a
> system fairly recently.
>
> Is my recollection correct that somebody's working on the MIPS port?

I'm sure Florian did some work on that.  I have no experience with
mips, but I saw that there are some Loongson laptops now.  Exciting
stuff.

Henry