On 06/17/2013 06:09 PM, Paul Breneman wrote:
The 5.7 MB arm-linux zip is just an easy way to see FPC 2.6.2 work on
the RPi or BB.
That of course is a great starter.
I just wanted to add a link for others that might encounter this
message thread in the future. I think most full-time programmers will
end up wanting to install a full development environment like Lazarus,
but the "easy" zips let you avoid that until later.
Yep. Of course, the Lazarus IDE is the tool of choice for fpc programmers.
In your original message you wrote: "The project I have in mind does
not need to have a GUI (nor any Android binding)."
Yep. I would use Lazarus just as an IDE. Preferably running it on the PC
as a cross development tool. But regarding the rather high versatility
of the BBB (Beagle Bone "black", greatly advanced vs the white thingy),
it might be a good idea to run Lazarus on the target, too.
I was the (main) TurboPower TPX person for AsyncPro for the last 5
years TurboPower was in business (1998 - 2003),
GREAT! We (company) bought an AsyncPro license many years ago, and very
happily use it since then. I would be _delighted_to be able to using it
on Linux with Lazarus fpc. Especially with non-GUI Projects, which is
not that easy because of the reduced Thread communication support in the
LCL when no GUI binding is not selected.
In this and many other forums I found lots of requests for a decent
serial- and Socket- communication unit, that frees the application
programmer from the low level thread handling.
But, no, I haven't ported it to Linux. I'm using Synapse for that:
www.CtrlTerm.com
I also use Synapse for this right now. But AsyncPro is a lot more
advanced, especially because of the automatic background threads it uses
and because of the unified API for serial and socket handling.
Thus porting APO to Lazarus/Linux/noGUI would be a GGRREEAATT advantage
:-) .
Thanks,
-Michael
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