Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC + fpGUI + Raspberry Pi = fantastic

2012-09-16 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 16.09.2012 07:08, schrieb Paul Breneman: Three minimal FPC and fpGUI distros were just updated on this page: http://www.turbocontrol.com/easyfpgui.htm The serial debug terminal (uses SynaSer part of Synapse) now compiles and the RPi works with my Gearmo USB to serial adapters (that use

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC + fpGUI + Raspberry Pi = fantastic

2012-09-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 16/09/12 06:08, Paul Breneman wrote: Three minimal FPC and fpGUI distros were just updated on this page: http://www.turbocontrol.com/easyfpgui.htm Awesome, thanks Paul. I can see I'll have to order another RPi, or more SD cards. :-) The Raspxbmc distro works really well as a media

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC + fpGUI + Raspberry Pi = fantastic

2012-09-15 Thread Paul Breneman
Three minimal FPC and fpGUI distros were just updated on this page: http://www.turbocontrol.com/easyfpgui.htm The serial debug terminal (uses SynaSer part of Synapse) now compiles and the RPi works with my Gearmo USB to serial adapters (that use FTDI chipsets). Should be fun to see what

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC + fpGUI + Raspberry Pi = fantastic

2012-09-14 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: I even compiled and ran the more complex fpGUI apps like the GUI Forms Designer, DocView (help viewer), and Maximus (a sample fpGUI IDE). Even FPTest (my Free Pascal Unit Testing project works). I don't believe you've mentioned Maximus here before, does it pull in

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC + fpGUI + Raspberry Pi = fantastic

2012-09-14 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 13/09/12 23:02, Marco van de Voort wrote: thus not hf. A month or so back, the PI foundation changed their default distro from wheezy (eabi,v5) to raspbian. So far the Raspbian image is pretty rubbish, compared to the pre-configure one I bought on my SD card. I guess the raspbian it too

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC + fpGUI + Raspberry Pi = fantastic

2012-09-14 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: So far the Raspbian image is pretty rubbish, compared to the pre-configure one I bought on my SD card. I guess the raspbian it too much bleeding egde (read super unstable). The Raspbian one has errors in raspi-config, so I can set my Dvorak

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC + fpGUI + Raspberry Pi = fantastic

2012-09-14 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 14/09/12 10:13, Marco van de Voort wrote: Did you get the foundation recommended image, or did you get some daily build or so? The recommended image on this page: Raspbian wheezy 2012-08-16 http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads I've just installed the Pisces image from the

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC + fpGUI + Raspberry Pi = fantastic

2012-09-14 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 14/09/12 09:10, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I don't believe you've mentioned Maximus here before, does it pull in the form designer etc.? Maximus is very basic at the moment. A project manager, syntax highlighting in editor, macro support in the settings dialogs, Find and Procedure List

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC + fpGUI + Raspberry Pi = fantastic

2012-09-14 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 14/09/12 09:10, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I don't believe you've mentioned Maximus here before, does it pull in the form designer etc.? I've tested in OpenSolaris 2009 release, but I don't have Solaris 8 to try. I can say that I have run fpGUI executables under

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC + fpGUI + Raspberry Pi = fantastic

2012-09-14 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 14/09/12 14:22, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: It was just an idle query... it might turn out to be possible to build it by taking sources of about the right age from e.g. Slackware 8.1, but right now I've got too much else on my plate to get into this. The alternative is to revert fpGUI to using

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC + fpGUI + Raspberry Pi = fantastic

2012-09-14 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 14/09/12 14:22, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: It was just an idle query... it might turn out to be possible to build it by taking sources of about the right age from e.g. Slackware 8.1, but right now I've got too much else on my plate to get into this. Thinking about it, there is a 100% Pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC + fpGUI + Raspberry Pi = fantastic

2012-09-14 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 14/09/12 14:22, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: It was just an idle query... it might turn out to be possible to build it by taking sources of about the right age from e.g. Slackware 8.1, but right now I've got too much else on my plate to get into this. The alternative

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC + fpGUI + Raspberry Pi = fantastic

2012-09-14 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 14/09/12 14:22, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: It was just an idle query... it might turn out to be possible to build it by taking sources of about the right age from e.g. Slackware 8.1, but right now I've got too much else on my plate to get into this. Thinking about

[fpc-pascal] FPC + fpGUI + Raspberry Pi = fantastic

2012-09-13 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, I received my Raspberry Pi today, and had a bit of a play. I'm using the Debian 6 OS with my Pi. I downloaded the FPC+fpGUI ARM archive (only a 3.5MB download), packaged by Paul Breneman. http://www.turbocontrol.com/easyfpgui.htm [Awesome work there, Paul. You can get much easier than

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC + fpGUI + Raspberry Pi = fantastic

2012-09-13 Thread Marcos Douglas
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys gra...@geldenhuys.co.uk wrote: Hi, I received my Raspberry Pi today, and had a bit of a play. I'm using the Debian 6 OS with my Pi. I downloaded the FPC+fpGUI ARM archive (only a 3.5MB download), packaged by Paul Breneman.

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC + fpGUI + Raspberry Pi = fantastic

2012-09-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, I received my Raspberry Pi today, and had a bit of a play. I'm using the Debian 6 OS with my Pi. I downloaded the FPC+fpGUI ARM archive (only a 3.5MB download), packaged by Paul Breneman. Nice one. All I had to do to get my projects to link successfully, was to

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC + fpGUI + Raspberry Pi = fantastic

2012-09-13 Thread Johann Glaser
Hi! Am Donnerstag, den 13.09.2012, 16:34 +0100 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: Hi, I received my Raspberry Pi today, and had a bit of a play. I'm using the Debian 6 OS with my Pi. I downloaded the FPC+fpGUI ARM archive (only a 3.5MB download), packaged by Paul Breneman.

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC + fpGUI + Raspberry Pi = fantastic

2012-09-13 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 13/09/12 17:19, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I think I've had to install those on any Debian system I've used for development, so for any change you'd be up against the entire Debian philosophy. Good luck. I don't think one needs to approach the Debian guys directly. I think one should only

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC + fpGUI + Raspberry Pi = fantastic

2012-09-13 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 13/09/12 17:35, Johann Glaser wrote: I also played with it, but only did a small Hello World! program. :-) :-) http://johann-glaser.blogspot.co.at/2012/06/raspberry-pi.html Thanks for the hint on your blog about making screenshots. I was just about to Google on how to do that from

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC + fpGUI + Raspberry Pi = fantastic

2012-09-13 Thread Den Jean
On Thursday 13 September 2012 19:55:04 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: normal 'xwd' or 'import' applications where not available (the latter I do not have a Rasberry, but I noticed that libqt4pas-dev is available in the packages (just like on the N900). Thx to Matthias Klumpp. Would you be so kind

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC + fpGUI + Raspberry Pi = fantastic

2012-09-13 Thread Johann Glaser
Hi! Am Donnerstag, den 13.09.2012, 19:55 +0100 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys: On 13/09/12 17:35, Johann Glaser wrote: I also played with it, but only did a small Hello World! program. :-) :-) http://johann-glaser.blogspot.co.at/2012/06/raspberry-pi.html Thanks for the hint on your

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC + fpGUI + Raspberry Pi = fantastic

2012-09-13 Thread Paul Breneman
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, I received my Raspberry Pi today, and had a bit of a play. I'm using the Debian 6 OS with my Pi. I downloaded the FPC+fpGUI ARM archive (only a 3.5MB download), packaged by Paul Breneman. http://www.turbocontrol.com/easyfpgui.htm [Awesome work there, Paul.

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC + fpGUI + Raspberry Pi = fantastic

2012-09-13 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: I think I've had to install those on any Debian system I've used for development, so for any change you'd be up against the entire Debian philosophy. Good luck. I don't think one needs to approach the Debian guys directly. I think one

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC + fpGUI + Raspberry Pi = fantastic

2012-09-13 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 13/09/12 22:20, Marco van de Voort wrote: Is that the old squeeze or Raspbian? I have the wheezy one, which I believe is Raspbian? Graeme. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC + fpGUI + Raspberry Pi = fantastic

2012-09-13 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: Is that the old squeeze or Raspbian? I have the wheezy one, which I believe is Raspbian? As far as I got it (I'm sure Peter G. can explain it better): Wheezy is a debian designation. Afaik Debian only supports two ARM targets, armv5 (EABI, no

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC + fpGUI + Raspberry Pi = fantastic

2012-09-13 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 13/09/12 23:02, Marco van de Voort wrote: But the images from the PI website with Wheezy in their name are v5, and thus not hf. A month or so back, the PI foundation changed their default distro from wheezy (eabi,v5) to raspbian. Thanks for the info. I'll take a look of the foundation