On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be>wrote:
> Hi, > > There is a new branch in svn (branches/jvmbackend) that contains support > for compiling Pascal code into Java virtual machine bytecode. While it does > not support all language constructs and while there are some differences in > some features that are supported, in general the result is fairly close to > "normal Pascal" you'd write. > > Note however that this is a pure compiler port at this time. That means > that while most of the language support is fairly complete, pretty much no > standard Pascal units are available. For all practical intents and purposes > there is only the system unit, and even that one misses many routines > (including helpers required for basic functions such as read(ln)/write(ln), > val, str, delete, pos, ...). > > On the other hand, a unit that contains the entire public interface of the > JDK 1.5 is available. Over time, it should be possible to provide most of > the standard functionality of the system unit (and other units) implemented > on top of that unit, or rewritten in Pascal code that does not depend on > untyped pointer accesses. > > Download information, usage information etc is available at > http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_JVM > > Regarding Android: the compiler and the system unit both use a bunch of > standard functionality from the JDK to implement various features. So > Android support would probably require quite a bit of extra work. I have not > looked into that. > > Enjoy! > > Is it good idea to write client application work on internet browser? Zaher Dirkey
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