[fpc-devel] M1 and Mac system support?

[Sven Barth]

Richard Hyman via fpc-devel <fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org> schrieb am
Do., 22. Sep. 2022, 09:00:

>
> 1.  Does FPC compile natively for the ARM Macs, specifically an M1? Docs I
> found do not directly answer this question (he's thinking about purchasing
> an M1 Mac mini).
>

This is supported since 3.2.2.

2.  Does FPC provide any support for interfacing to the system?
>

Aside from interfacing through the C API FPC can also interact with
Objective C objects.



> a.  Can an FPC compiled app be run from the terminal with recognition of
> input parameters (standard I/O). E.G. run something such as "myApp
> /../myInputFile.txt   /../myOutputFile.txt", and have the app parse $1 and
> $2 for the input and output files?
>

You can access parameter values using the ParamStr functions and then you
need to open the files with the file APilI of your choice.


> If FPC supports standard I/O, how is it accomplished within the app?
>

FPC supports the standard Pascal I/O using Assign, Read, Write and friends,
an imperative style FileOpen, FileRead, FileWrite API as well as the
TStream based API.


> b.  Does FPC support Mac system APIs? This is a general question since API
> support in any one of several areas (beyond graphics for example) would be
> beneficial.
>

Since FPC can interact with the system as mentioned above, it does. A unit
with various converted API headers is provided.

Just look at what Lazarus can do. It's a native macOS application and
without interfacing with the macOS API this wouldn't be possible.

Regards,
Sven

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