On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 10:37:41 -0500, Paul Breneman <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi Bo, > >> I am setting up an environment for developing a simple GUI application >> for RS232 communications that will eventually be loaded on an embedded >> ARM system running a debian linux port. >> >> I am not used to Linux so I figured I could develop on Windows and >> test it natively there and then cross-compile for the ARM-linux >> platform when I am done. >> >> For the development I have installed FPC 2.4.2 and gotten Lazarus, >> both trunk and the fixes_0_9_30 branch from SVN. Both compiled OK so I >> am good concerning the Windows dev tools. >> >> Question 1: >> Is the scenario I am after at all possible? >> >> Question 2: >> I have tried to locate an FPC 2.4.2 cross compiler for ARM targets >> running on a Windows host, but failed. Is one available or must I >> change my development hosting to a (for me unknown) linux system? >> I *have* googled some wiki pages outlining cross-compile for ARM, but >> these are using linux as the host, unfortunately... > >What you want is certainly possible but you might need to learn how to >build your own cross-compile FPC and Lazarus. You might consider doing >what I did and install CodeTyphon in a virtual machine: > http://www.pilotlogic.com/ > >That uses a recent FPC and Lazarus trunk so it isn't the stable versions >you want. But it might be useful for you to see what is possible on >Windows: > http://www.pilotlogic.com/codetyphon_help/layers_and_areas.htm > >Paul Thanks, if most people use Linux (Ubuntu?) to do the cross-compile stuff I might as well fix me up with a virtual machine running Ubuntu. In fact I have done this several times already but every time I never get around to actually using the Ubuntu VM for anything.... Incidentally, my target as you might guess is the board you told me about a couple of months back... Since then I am retiring my old DELL XP-Pro PC in favour of an HP EliteBook laptop with Win7 X64. Turns out that I had to also create a virtual machine for running some of my older dev tools on since they would not work on Win7. So I already have decided to put all the dev tools in an XP VM (VMWare), which is what I am setting up right now. Could as well also create an Ubuntu 10 VM for the FPC and Lazarus cross compile. But now I had a quick look at the CodeTyphon project you linked to and found that it probably runs on Win32 (my XP VM), so I will download it and have alook. :-) Thanks again. -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
