[fpc-devel] FPC for Linux-ARM

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Marco van de Voort wrote:

>> I will, but since I'm running natively on a system with very limited 
>> memory running a complete build takes a week.
>>
>> Lazbuild using 2.4.2 on armel generates working programs.
> 
> Yesterday I've made a crosscompiling 2.5.1 snapshot that is able to
> crosscompile binaries with shared libs support to Sheeva (eabi=4) from
> Windows.
> 
> I suppose it would work with any armel -Cfsoft -Cparmv5 device. I have not
> enabled thumb, but I seem to have it (see cpuinfo below)
> 
> Unfortunately, my sheeva doesn't have X (yet); it's root is on flash.
> 
> I also uploaded armel cross-binutils windows->arm-linux. (see msg yesterday)

I saw that but figured that everybody else would be saying "well done" 
and I didn't need to comment :-)

One thing I would say though is that if you do load X onto a tight 
system use FluxBox rather than Gnome or KDE, and keep screen size 
(whether via XDMCP or VNC) small.

I've got a problem running lazarus (i.e. as distinct from lazbuild) on 
SPARC and ARM, if I can pin it down I'll raise it elsewhere.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
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