[fpc-pascal] Windows on ARM, how fast it can be implemented?

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Wed Mar 27 09:41:16 CET 2013


In our previous episode, Sven Barth said:
> > Well windows has only about 1.5% of the tablet market, and its 
> > doubtful if that will grow - plus, as mentioned, it's closed by 
> > design.  Then again, Apple's app store is restricted, and fpc supports 
> > that.
> >
> This is not about Windows apps. Support for WinRT (aka Metro) would be a 
> completely different topic. This is about running normal desktop 
> applications compied for arm-win32 on a Windows RT tablet and those 
> won't be found in the Windows app store, because you need to jailbreak 
> the Windows RT device to be able to run unsigned desktop applications.

Does Metro btw make a difference between the visual, language and system
libraries?   (like GDI/MSVCRT/win32 in Win32/64)



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