[fpc-devel] ARM/AARCH64 work

[Sven Barth]

Am 05.08.2020 um 22:44 schrieb J. Gareth Moreton:
> I can't promise anything just yet, but I'll see what I can do.
>
> At the moment I'm still learning to configure anything.  I've had apps crash from out of memory
> errors and the CPU get throttled due to overheating while trying to play a YouTube video.  I've got
> some things sorted by increasing the size of the swap file.  Frankly I want my laptop back so I can
> get a proper e-mail client again, since I can't quite remember the server details off-hand and the
> Webmail client causes problems with indenting in the fpc-devel mailing list, as you undoubtedly
> remember.

Can't you check what you need from the webclient? After all at least 
your username and password should be the same no matter if you access 
through the web interface or IMAP...

> When you say Windows 10 on ARM64, do you mean an actual build for ARM processors or an x86_64
> version running inside a virtual machine?  Presumably I'll have to buy a copy of the OS for that, so
> it will have to wait for a little bit if that's the case.  But hey, I'm all for cross-platform
> development.
Yes, a Windows build for ARM64 processors. I've recently done the port 
for FPC for that. :)
Well, whether you have to buy a copy I can't answer with finality yet, 
but you can download the necessary files from Microsoft (no matter the 
architecture) and at least the "nag screen" that it isn't licensed 
hasn't appeared yet. So in the worst case you'll simply have to 
reinstall it every few months to keep using the evaluation version...

Regards,
Sven