Re: [Lazarus] Raspberry Pi 3 build issues

2016-03-25 Thread Florian Klämpfl
Am 25.03.2016 um 11:19 schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd: > Bo Berglund wrote: > >>> It should be noted that the default swap file size of Raspbian is only >>> 100MB which combined with a possible GPU memory settings will occasionally >>> cause Lazarus builds to fail mysteriously. >> >> I originally had

Re: [Lazarus] Raspberry Pi 3 build issues

2016-03-25 Thread Anthony Walter
> You'll generally need something like 512Mb of available memory, i.e. RAM + swap, > with the linker in particular benefiting from extra. Around here, I'm being firmly > discouraged (by other colleagues with an electronics background) from putting > swap on the card, but instead putting it on an

Re: [Lazarus] Testing Rapberry Pi 3 performance

2016-03-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2016-03-25 09:33, Bo Berglund wrote: > installing FPC > 3.0.0 and Lazarus 1.6 A word of caution, there is a major bug in FPC 3.0 regarding floating point values (see the FPC mailing list), so I wouldn't recommend anybody upgrade to FPC 3.0 at this point - at least until 3.0.2 is out. This

Re: [Lazarus] Raspberry Pi 3 build issues

2016-03-25 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Bo Berglund wrote: It should be noted that the default swap file size of Raspbian is only 100MB which combined with a possible GPU memory settings will occasionally cause Lazarus builds to fail mysteriously. I originally had instructions for usage that specifically increased swap to 1000MB to

Re: [Lazarus] Raspberry Pi 3 build issues

2016-03-25 Thread Bo Berglund
On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 14:03:25 -0400, Anthony Walter wrote: >Seeing as how SD CARD space is a premium on the Pi you should probably >clean up after you build and install. This include doing things like this >after make install: > >cd $HOME/fpc >rm -rf .svn There is no .svn dir in

Re: [Lazarus] Testing Rapberry Pi 3 performance

2016-03-25 Thread Bo Berglund
On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 14:00:57 +, David Taylor wrote: >I've not had chance to try Lazarus, though. You might want to look at my installation script for installing FPC 3.0.0 and Lazarus 1.6 on a bare newly started RPi3 with Raspbian Jessie:

Re: [Lazarus] Having multiple Lazarus like GetLazarus version

2016-03-25 Thread Bo Berglund
On Thu, 24 Mar 2016 19:51:54 +, Martin Frb wrote: >Of course there is no installer for trunk. So when you get the sources, >you need do build your first lazarus.exe (you can use make and the >makefile, I never tried). >If you copy a lazarus.exe from another install,