Re: [fpc-other] I need ppcjvm for ARM64 architecture
Dear MR Barth, You are elite programmer and thank you very very much for yours detailed and professional description. To be honest, I have occured The most positive feeling thanks to Pascal language. Because PPCJVM creates .class files and Android build tools transfer it to .dex format. I can run many variousapps on Android. The most exciting fact is, that There are two projects which can enable visually impaired users with no sight at all program for Android. Resulting GUI of apps are fully accessible with screen readers. Code is reliable and memory allocations are very friendly, if developer work as he should work with his source code and Pascal commands. javavcl-code-r1007 Contain VCL units. Author have been inspired by Borland Delphi VCL. Sure code have been his and adapted for PPCJVM Android development. Visually impaired users and not only those users can specify adjectives to specify object to left, top, bottom, ETC. There are even adjectives to speciy font name, size. Sure. Java programmers can also do that. But I love Pascal very much. I do not like combining .java with .xml files. Pascal language is structured and its procedural form enable Me to develop more effectively. Pandroid from MR Swianovitz contain various modules and I can develop with noneed to add object position values in Pixels. It is not easy to imagine The value if developer do not see at all. But thanks to people, who have develop unique aalgorithms, object position values are only volunteer not mandatory. GUI is acceptable even by sighted users. No data are overlapping and there are even no system crashes. Mr Swianovitz is very kind to Me. He has helped Me very very much and I would like to publicly thank him for his complex work. He has generated bass Pascal unit for Me. And he has shown Me how to call Android APi functions. The most difficult task is to generate Android Pascal headers. Android 28.inc, etc. Process is so complex that it can not be develop to work fully automated. It is necessary to deeply know Java and Pascal and it is necessary to swap lines. It is really work for professional. But eljuko have done it not only for Me. He was very patient and I Am deeply appreciating his approach to My ples and he is good programmer. Pandroid even allow to combine not only to .dex but Pascal sources can be even compiled to .so libraryes by using ARM instructions machine code. And resulting GUI is fully accessible. ___ fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-other
Re: [fpc-other] I need ppcjvm for ARM64 architecture
Am 27.04.2020 um 13:38 schrieb Mgr. Janusz Chmiel via fpc-other: Dear specialists, My long term dream is to develop simple Android IDE which will be able to compile Pascal app based on PPCJVM to The fully functional .apk package. The first what I would like to plea you is to give Me direct link to download PPCJVM for ARM64. So PPCJVM, which can compile Pascal sources to .class files. Unfortunately, I do not know, who have developed Android build tools for Android, not for Windows or for Linux and if those build tools can be legally downloaded from somewhere. We do not provide a compiler that can run on Android, but you can compile it yourself. Please note that I have not fully tested the following steps, but please feel free to ask back if you have problems. You'll need the following: - a FPC 3.2 RC1 installation (at least for now until we've released the final version); you can find it here: ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/beta/3.2.0-rc1/ (just to avoid confusion: the aarch64-android mentioned there is *not* what you want right now) - the sources for FPC 3.2 RC1 also available on that site - the fpcjvmutilities.zip, if you don't have it already; it's available here: ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/contrib/jvm/fpcjvmutilities.zip - the NDK for the Android version you want to target For this example I'll assume that you installed FPC 3.2 RC1 on a Linux in /opt/fpc. Thus the fpc binary will be available in /opt/fpc/bin/fpc and the units will be in /opt/fpc/lib/fpc/3.2.0rc1/units. The sources I assume to be in ~/sources/fpc/3.2.0 and the NDK (the directory containing "as" and "ld") as well as the fpcjvmutiltities I assume to be available in $PATH, otherwise you'll need to specify their paths using CROSSBINDIR for their corresponding steps. First we create the Java compatible units and class files. For this go to the directory with the FPC sources and execute the following (here you need to specify the fpcjvmutilties using CROSSBINDIR if you don't have them in PATH): make crossall FPC=/opt/fpc/bin/fpc OS_TARGET=android CPU_TARGET=jvm If this was successful do the following (the INSTALL_PREFIX will be the same directory you installed FPC in, in our example /opt/fpc): make crossinstall FPC=/opt/fpc/bin/fpc OS_TARGET=android CPU_TARGET=jvm INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/fpc As next step you need to create a cross compiler for aarch64-android (here you need to specify the NDK using CROSSBINDIR if you don't have them in PATH): make crossall FPC=/opt/fpc/bin/fpc OS_TARGET=android CPU_TARGET=aarch64 If this was successful you do a make crossinstall FPC=/opt/fpc/bin/fpc OS_TARGET=android CPU_TARGET=aarch64 INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/fpc As the last step we need to cross compile the JVM compiler for aarch64-android. For this change into the compiler directory and execute: make all FPC=/opt/fpc/bin/ppcrossa64 JVM=1 This will create a ppcjvm that you can run on an Android device. Additionally you will need all the files that were copied to the /opt/fpc/lib/3.2.0rc1/units/jvm-android directory. Now you only need to supply a suitable fpc.cfg file to the compiler and hope that the jasmin.jar assembler can run on Android. I hope this helps you. Regards, Sven ___ fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-other
Re: [fpc-other] VSCode
Am 28.04.2020 um 02:14 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: On 26/04/2020 2:37 pm, Sven Barth via fpc-other wrote: It's more lightweight than eclipse. Well that's comparing Apples to Oranges isn't it? Yes originally Eclipse was designed as an IDE for many languages, but it has grown to be so much more - even a platform to base new applications on (similar to VCL, LCL etc). Granted I haven't played much with VSCode, but considering it is built on the same foundations as Atom, Sublime Text... ie CSS/HTML engine, they are quite resource intensive. But then I guess I'm comparing them as pure text editors in the lines of EditPad Pro, Vim, gEdit etc that uses a fraction of the memory (one example of resource usage) to load the same set of files. eg: The last time I tried Atom (2 months ago) it used 380MB to load a set of 10 large Java files. jEdit used 180MB and EditPad Pro used 18MB. Vim was something like 8MB - lol. I meant that in the context of "I need a JDK installed". Which I usually don't have on my computers. On my current one I installed a JDK only a few weeks ago to test something with Ghidra, but before that I was happy without one. And I'll probably kick that one out again... Regards, Sven ___ fpc-other maillist - fpc-other@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-other
