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

[Sven Barth]

Am 27.03.2013 10:07, schrieb Marco van de Voort:
> 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.
Some of the low level API functions are available (but only selected 
ones) and then there are the COM APIs. Seeing that our support for COM 
has matured in 2.6 a WinRT port should be doable, but one would need (a) 
time and (b) a Windows 8 system. I don't have either (the latter mostly, 
because my university has not yet managed to provide free versions... -.-).

Regards,
Sven