[fpc-pascal]PalmOS

[Matt Emson]

There are already 2 very good pascal compilers for the palm platform in late
beta. One will be pretty cheap when it ships. The other thing is that Palm
inc has just acquired Be Inc's assets, so you can probably kiss goodbye to
the 68k Palm OS with in the next year or so. Palm will either move to BeIA
or a hybrid - probably on a PowerPC/Risc processor.

This of course sucks for me, because I just got underway with the Be API
wrapper for the FPC BeOS port :(.. it look like BeOS is dead and burried....

http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010816/n16293414.html

Matt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Florian Klaempfl" <florian at klaempfl.de>
To: <fpc-pascal at deadlock.et.tudelft.nl>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 9:52 PM
Subject: [fpc-pascal]PalmOS


> I've uploaded a new PalmOS port to
> ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/fpc/dist/palmos-1.0.5
>
> readme.txt:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> This is the PalmOS port of FPC 1.0.5 m68k. It is
> compiled for a Win32 host system.
>
> To install it, simply extract it into your \pp (FPC folder).
>
> If you don't have FPC installed it doesn't matter, simply extra
> the zip files into any folder, c:\pp is recommended) and extend your path
> variable with a path to bin\palmos.
>
> If you don't have installed the PalmOS support in C:\pp, you've to
> change the paths in bin\palmos\ppc.cfg.
>
> The directory pp\demo\palmos contains a small demo. Compile
> it by executing the batch file do_make.bat and load
> the generated pilrctst.prc into the Palm OS emulator or
> into your Palm device. The demo is a Pascal port of the pilrctst.
>
> This is only an alpha port so don't expect too much. Especially the
> Palm OS interface provided by the palm unit is very poor.
>
> Further depends on the feedback I'll get about this port.
>
> Any help is welcome. Especially I'am looking for more (and bigger) test
> programs.
>
> Florian (florian at freepascal.org)
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>
> Enjoy!
>
>
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