Re: [fpc-devel] Porting FPC to Support OpenMoko

2009-03-21 Thread Paul Breneman
you please point me to what is needed to be done ? Could you please try compiling and running the program here and let me know if it works out? http://www.turbocontrol.com/helloworld.htm -- Regards, Paul Breneman www.TurboControl.com www.TurboControl.com/embeddedfreepascal.htm - Notes on using

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting FPC to Support OpenMoko

2009-03-21 Thread Paul Breneman
precompiled for the first configuration? Thanks in advance for any advice. I sure do need to study up on this more so links or info would be appreciated. -- Regards, Paul Breneman www.TurboControl.com www.TurboControl.com/embeddedfreepascal.htm - Notes on using FreePascal on embedded systems

Re: [fpc-devel] Porting FPC to Support OpenMoko

2009-03-23 Thread Paul Breneman
Ido, I've tested your Hello World example and it returns to me the following error message: ./ppcarm hello.pas Illegal instruction The two OM distro I tested using EABI On 14 Dec 2008 on the fpc-devel maillist Florian Klaempfl wrote: ** Yes. I uploaded a starting eabi compiler

[fpc-devel] Free Pascal 2.4.2 minimal distros for fpGUI available

2010-11-13 Thread Paul Breneman
a private copy of that distro. -- Regards, Paul Breneman www.dbReplication.com - VCL database replication components www.TurboControl.com - Hardware and software development services - Educational programming project for environment monitoring - Information on using FreePascal for embedded systems

Re: [fpc-devel] Free Pascal 2.4.2 minimal distros for fpGUI available

2010-11-14 Thread Paul Breneman
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 14 November 2010 04:09, Paul Breneman wrote: This web page has i386 Win32 and ARM WinCE cross-compiler zips that include everything needed (no install necessary) to test FPC 2.4.2 with the fpGUI 0.7 release (Aug 2010): http://www.turbocontrol.com/easyfpgui.htm

Re: [fpc-devel] Free Pascal 2.4.2 minimal distros for fpGUI available

2010-11-14 Thread Paul Breneman
Paul Breneman wrote on 11/13/2010: This web page has i386 Win32 and ARM WinCE cross-compiler zips that include everything needed (no install necessary) to test FPC 2.4.2 with the fpGUI 0.7 release (Aug 2010): http://www.turbocontrol.com/easyfpgui.htm The i386 Linux version is almost ready

Re: [fpc-devel] Free Pascal 2.4.2 minimal distros for fpGUI available

2010-11-15 Thread Paul Breneman
Michael Schnell wrote: On 11/14/2010 03:09 AM, Paul Breneman wrote: This web page has i386 Win32 and ARM WinCE cross-compiler zips that include everything needed (no install necessary) to test FPC 2.4.2 with the fpGUI 0.7 release (Aug 2010): http://www.turbocontrol.com/easyfpgui.htm

Re: [fpc-devel] Free Pascal 2.4.2 minimal distros for fpGUI available

2010-11-17 Thread Paul Breneman
Martin Schreiber wrote: On Tuesday, 16. November 2010 14.52:12 Paul Breneman wrote: I'd like to take the minimal distros and add a simple option to use MSEide and it supports debugging from what I understand. Then maybe extending that with remote debugging would be the next item. MSEide

Re: [fpc-devel] Free Pascal 2.4.2 minimal distros for fpGUI available

2010-11-17 Thread Paul Breneman
Michael Schnell wrote: On 11/16/2010 02:52 PM, Paul Breneman wrote: I try hard to write Pascal programs without using pointers and without allocating or deallocating memory. OOpps. How is this possible :) ? But in what way does this help on that issue ? I do see that memory allocation

Re: [fpc-devel] Free Pascal 2.4.2 minimal distros for fpGUI available

2010-11-19 Thread Paul Breneman
Henry Vermaak wrote: On 15/11/10 13:13, Paul Breneman wrote: Michael Schnell wrote: On 11/14/2010 03:09 AM, Paul Breneman wrote: This web page has i386 Win32 and ARM WinCE cross-compiler zips that include everything needed (no install necessary) to test FPC 2.4.2 with the fpGUI 0.7 release

Re: [fpc-devel] embedded again

2013-01-14 Thread Paul Breneman
Michael Schnell wrote: On 01/11/2013 12:37 PM, Michael Schnell wrote: I don't suppose I can run an X11 stub (such as NoMachine NX or whatever the Xorg stub is called) plus a widget set (such as QT) on the QNAP NA device. later I found this:

Re: [fpc-devel] Is target mips-embedded possible / planned?

2013-05-16 Thread Paul Breneman
Michael Ring wrote: I finished first tests on memory read performance fot jtag probes/pic32, all on my Mac except the raspberry test: Olimex TINY-H with openocd:120 Seconds for 32k of data Olimex TINY-H with ejtagproxy: 10 Seconds for 1k of data, I did not have the patience to wait for

Re: [fpc-devel] where do download BinUtils for ARM - Raspberry Pi?

2013-06-29 Thread Paul Breneman
On 06/29/2013 08:58 AM, Michel Catudal wrote: Le 2013-06-21 03:32, Michael Schnell a écrit : I don't understand why RPI (still) gets so much interest. A friend of mine just bought two BeagleBone Black boards for € 38.- (+VAT) each. With the extremely versatile and well supported TI 1 GHz chip

Re: [fpc-devel] TCustomApplication

2013-08-19 Thread Paul Breneman
On 08/19/2013 08:45 AM, Michael Schnell wrote: On 08/19/2013 02:48 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: I will not implement anything, you will :) Right you are :-) . I sincerely hope I once will find the time to do this, now that we TThread.Queue which proves that it in fact is possible. I'm

Re: [fpc-devel] Smarter way of generating ARMHF fpc trunk installation?

2014-03-03 Thread Paul Breneman
On 03/03/2014 03:24 AM, Reinier Olislagers wrote: fpcup, an FPC/Lazarus build/installation/update program uses the following steps on ARMHF Linux (e.g. raspbian, odroid): 1. Get FPC stable (2.6.2 currently) ARM bootstrap compiler binary This compiler cannot directly build ARMHF FPC trunk. 2.

Re: [fpc-devel] Smarter way of generating ARMHF fpc trunk installation?

2014-03-03 Thread Paul Breneman
On 03/03/2014 12:13 PM, Jonas Maebe wrote: On 03 Mar 2014, at 17:49, Paul Breneman wrote: On 03/03/2014 03:24 AM, Reinier Olislagers wrote: fpcup, an FPC/Lazarus build/installation/update program uses the following steps on ARMHF Linux (e.g. raspbian, odroid): 1. Get FPC stable (2.6.2

Re: [fpc-devel] Smarter way of generating ARMHF fpc trunk installation?

2014-03-03 Thread Paul Breneman
On 03/03/2014 02:37 PM, Reinier Olislagers wrote: On 03/03/2014 19:39, Paul Breneman wrote: On 03/03/2014 12:13 PM, Jonas Maebe wrote: On 03 Mar 2014, at 17:49, Paul Breneman wrote: On 03/03/2014 03:24 AM, Reinier Olislagers wrote: fpcup, an FPC/Lazarus build/installation/update program uses

Re: [fpc-devel] Building 2.7.1 on current Raspbian fails

2014-10-23 Thread Paul Breneman
On 10/23/2014 08:41 AM, Joost van der Sluis wrote: On 10/23/2014 11:49 AM, Jonas Maebe wrote: On 23/10/14 11:28, Thaddy de Koning wrote: The starting compiler is any official FPC 2.6.4 compiler that can be downloaded from our website. With any of those compilers, you can build both cross and

[fpc-devel] Small virtual machine to cross compile FPC

2014-10-27 Thread Paul Breneman
I've spent a bit of time during the past 7 years trying to figure out how to simplify things by avoiding cross-compiling. This page has many of the details: http://turbocontrol.com/monitor.htm I think there is a way to simplify cross-compiling. Levinux is a small (~20 MB) QEMU download

Re: [fpc-devel] Small virtual machine to cross compile FPC

2014-10-31 Thread Paul Breneman
On 10/27/2014 06:09 PM, Paul Breneman wrote: I've spent a bit of time during the past 7 years trying to figure out how to simplify things by avoiding cross-compiling. This page has many of the details: http://turbocontrol.com/monitor.htm I think there is a way to simplify cross-compiling

Re: [fpc-devel] Small virtual machine to cross compile FPC

2014-10-31 Thread Paul Breneman
On 10/31/2014 12:02 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Fri, 31 Oct 2014, Paul Breneman wrote: On 10/27/2014 06:09 PM, Paul Breneman wrote: I've spent a bit of time during the past 7 years trying to figure out how to simplify things by avoiding cross-compiling. This page has many

Re: [fpc-devel] Small virtual machine to cross compile FPC

2014-11-01 Thread Paul Breneman
On 11/01/2014 03:13 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote: Paul Breneman schrieb: I think 100Mb is a bit small. You'll need cross-binutils, X, cross-dev libs and whatnot. 650Mb would be feasable, I guess. Thanks for that info, but couldn't most of that be download into the VM *after* it is running

Re: [fpc-devel] FreeSparta project is dead - Generics.Collections is live

2014-12-26 Thread Paul Breneman
On 12/26/2014 12:24 PM, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: Hi, On Tue, 23 Dec 2014, Maciej Izak wrote: I've Decided to close the FreeSparta. Thanks you all for your interest. There are several reasons. [...] When I look for new jobs, it seems that there are no more jobs for Pascal/Delphi

[fpc-devel] Teensy (no OS) programmed with Free Pascal Embedded ARM

2015-05-28 Thread Paul Breneman
Wow, yesterday I started this new message: http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,28561.0.html And today Laksen says it's committed to SVN trunk. That was fast! Thanks to all the FPC developers! ___ fpc-devel maillist -

Re: [fpc-devel] Small virtual machine to cross compile FPC

2015-05-24 Thread Paul Breneman
Today I updated the message for Debian Jessie as it was released last month: http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,26315.msg174469.html#msg174469 On 04/14/2015 02:39 PM, Paul Breneman wrote: I didn't know better, but last fall I also posted this topic in the Free Pascal section

Re: [fpc-devel] Future of FPCUP tool

2015-05-24 Thread Paul Breneman
On 05/19/2015 02:19 AM, Alfred wrote: @vfclists This was a regression ... should be fixed by now. @florian Importing should have been done ! However, this all started as a not-too-serious attempt by me to get fpcup running again. I must say its not easy to maintain/understand code without

Re: [fpc-devel] Future of FPCUP tool

2015-07-29 Thread Paul Breneman
On 07/29/2015 08:23 AM, Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Paul Breneman said: * The text below is from that wiki page * This downloads a file (875240 bytes) but can't execute it (help needed): wget https://github.com/LongDirtyAnimAlf/Reiniero-fpcup/blob/master/bin/i386

Re: [fpc-devel] Future of FPCUP tool

2015-07-29 Thread Paul Breneman
On 07/29/2015 12:25 PM, Paul Breneman wrote: On 07/29/2015 08:23 AM, Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Paul Breneman said: * The text below is from that wiki page * This downloads a file (875240 bytes) but can't execute it (help needed): wget https://github.com

Re: [fpc-devel] Future of FPCUP tool

2015-07-29 Thread Paul Breneman
On 05/24/2015 02:24 PM, Paul Breneman wrote: On 05/19/2015 02:19 AM, Alfred wrote: @vfclists This was a regression ... should be fixed by now. @florian Importing should have been done ! However, this all started as a not-too-serious attempt by me to get fpcup running again. I must say its

Re: [fpc-devel] Teensy (no OS) programmed with Free Pascal Embedded ARM

2015-10-10 Thread Paul Breneman
On 05/28/2015 08:45 AM, Paul Breneman wrote: Wow, yesterday I started this new message: http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,28561.0.html And today Laksen says it's committed to SVN trunk. That was fast! Thanks to all the FPC developers! And today I finally made my first

Re: [fpc-devel] Teensy (no OS) programmed with Free Pascal Embedded ARM

2015-10-11 Thread Paul Breneman
On 10/10/2015 01:49 PM, Paul Breneman wrote: On 05/28/2015 08:45 AM, Paul Breneman wrote: Wow, yesterday I started this new message: http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,28561.0.html And today Laksen says it's committed to SVN trunk. That was fast! Thanks to all the FPC

Re: [fpc-devel] Specific RTL for embedded target

2015-11-20 Thread Paul Breneman
On 11/20/2015 06:09 PM, Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Simon Ameis said: So will FPC provide the compiler (and maybe an FPC-embedded linker for ARM) only? Or would be a reasonable goal to publish "default" device drivers for embedded targets? It would depend on

Re: [fpc-devel] Specific RTL for embedded target

2015-11-22 Thread Paul Breneman
Michael, Jeppe was so nice to check in a new set of units for stm32f4, teensy and arduino due, this means that my older, much bigger unit for the teensy is now replaced with a much leaner version. Can you please check if this causes issues for your distribution? Thanks for that info. I'll

Re: [fpc-devel] Exceptions on wiki

2018-08-01 Thread Paul Breneman
On 07/31/2018 08:32 PM, Kirinn wrote: Hi all, Inspired by Gareth aka. Kit's infectious enthusiasm, and the recent long discussion on exceptions on this list, I wrote up an article on Exceptions on the FPC wiki. (Strangely enough we didn't have one before.)

Re: [fpc-devel] Programming in Pascal .

2019-03-27 Thread Paul Breneman
On 3/27/2019 10:28 AM, Tomas Hajny wrote: On Wed, March 27, 2019 14:53, Yves Boudeville wrote: Merci Tomas pour votre sympathique aide sur le Free Pascal. Pas de quoi / you're welcome. :-) . . I absolutely agree with you Tomas, I can do very interesting simulations 1920 x 1080 in

Re: [fpc-devel] Minor debate with ISO standard on case blocks

2019-07-30 Thread Paul Breneman
This message thread has been interesting to read. I just realized today that I dealt with similar issues in Delphi 19 years ago. This is discussed in the good Microsoft Press book *Code Complete* by Steve McConnell. Using the default else block of a case statement to show a program error