[fpc-pascal] Different idea

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 19 Aug 2015, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:

> Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Aug 2015, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> 
>>> Michael Schnell wrote:
>>>> On 08/18/2015 10:03 PM, Chris Moody wrote:
>>>>> Having issues getting cross compiling to work, so here's another idea:
>>>>> 
>>>>> What files would I need to move from Lazarus on my computer to the Pi, 
>>>>> so it will be able to find all of the libraries? Or perhaps even better, 
>>>>> how can I get the command Lazarus sends to FPC from my computer so I can 
>>>>> issue it on the Pi?
>>>>> 
>>>> On a headless ARM system that hence can't run Lazarus, I completely did 
>>>> and tested the application on a Linux PC, with everything that is not 
>>>> available on the target (in that case among other stuff everything GUI 
>>>> related including timers) in a "simulation" unit that provides Stimuli 
>>>> and Debug outputs is appropriate classes. That can nicely be done in a 
>>>> completely Object oriented way using Events (callbacks), properties and 
>>>> functions.
>>> 
>>> A (physically) headless system can run Lazarus etc. without any problems, 
>>> provided that you can login using X11 (XDMCP), VNC, or SSH. Obviously 
>>> appropriate underlying libraries are needed (gtk2 or whatever), but apart 
>>> from that the only caveat is that building Lazarus or programs of any 
>>> significant size tends to be memory-intensive- but generally within the 
>>> scope of an Rpi.
>> 
>> I use lazbuild succesfully on a machine without any X library installed.
>> Works perfectly for automated final builds of website software.
>
> With the caveat that you need to run Lazarus at least once to get the paths 
> etc. set up (i.e. settings stored in ~/.lazarus or as determined by -pcp).

No, I copied those from a development machine. 
A couple of search-and-replace operations got everything sorted out.

Michael.