On Mon, 26 Oct 2015 10:29:35 +0100, Michael Schnell <[email protected]> wrote:
This might actually be a bit off topic for this thread, which I created in order to report a Lazarus IDE problem rather than discussing my development issues... But anyway: >As I suggested before, you should first do the porting completely on a >Linux PC, avoiding such cut/paste and hundreds of other problems. Well, I am not right now that far into the process. I have just briefly tested the class units and checked what would be the caveats there. But then I have switched to laying the ground work first and check if I could actually use FPC in order to: 1) Control relays via the GPIO connector on the RPi2. Done OK 2) Create a TCPIP communications object that would have properties similar to the serial port component I have used in Delphi. THis measn that it must have at least an event for receiving data on the socket. I have tried several approaches and am not yet done. My last try is using Indy TIdTcpClient with some thread to handle the blocking read issues. This is not done and where I am now and since it involves the basic hardware stuff (including ARM7 CPU) I feel it is safer to do directly on the target system. Not yet done. >As you stated before, that you already have a running PC Linux, Here you >have an X-server, the small board can attach to via TCP/IP in the >standard UNIX way. Not entirely accurate, what I have are a few VMWare virtual machines with some flavours of Linux Mint installed in order to use for web development testing. So then I need to fire up the VMWare environment too and start the virtual machine in order to get a display that sits inside the VM... Do you mean that the Linux Mint has an X server that can be used by my Raspbian Jessie on the Pi as the display when they are on the same network? Or do you mean I should switch away from the Pi and work in the Linux Mint instead? Before going the VNC route I tried to find an X-server that could be installed in Windows7 so I could use that as the display for the Raspbian Jessie GUI. But it was not as easy as I expected, there were all kinds of caveats concerning those I found so I gave up and tried VNC instead.... Never was able to install and use Xming for example. Do you have a suggestion as to which X-server I could run on Windows7 instead of using VNC? -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
