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

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Wed Mar 27 10:07:50 CET 2013


In our previous episode, Sven Barth said:
> > Does Metro btw make a difference between the visual, language and system
> > libraries?   (like GDI/MSVCRT/win32 in Win32/64)
> I've not looked at this in detail, but AFAIK you only have certain 
> libraries and functions available and it will be checked by the Windows 
> store and the OS that you don't load anything else that you shouldn't 
> load... (you don't even have full access to the filesystem :( ). That's 
> why a complete new OS port would be necessary to support WinRT...

That's what I heard too, and in addition that most functionality is exposed
as (COM) interfaces. But I haven't seen more detail. I hoped for an article
in the C'T about it, but either I missed it, or there hasn't been.



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