Michael Schnell wrote:
Hi experts. (Beware: long explanation trying to help those ho try
something similar. A question is asked at the end.)
I am trying to install, test and run fpc programs on a QNAP 219 P II NAS.
Same is a headless ARM-Linux device. With 512 MB RAM and It has enough
resources to even run Lazarus in a remote GUI environment.
But first I tried to install and use fpc.
Here the initial problem is, that the device uses a mildly QNAP
propriety Linux distribution. Same comes with installation tools for
it's own package format (".qpkg") moreover you can install Optware
".ipkg" packages, as there is a qpkg for Optware. .
But for fpc there is neither a qpkg not an ipkg package. AFAIK for ARM
there only is an Debian "apt-get" package for fpc and friends. Same is
said to happily be useable on a "Raspberry Pi" with similar resources as
the QNAP 219 P II.
So I tried to find the appropriate ".deb" files
I found the downloadable Debian package here:
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/armel/fp-compiler/download ->
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/fpc/fp-compiler_2.4.0-2_armel.deb
I could extract the content doing
..
Works !!!!
I've done that sort of thing between e.g. SPARC systems, but not really
attempted it on ARM where there are more variants. I think the thing I'd
do at this point is see if I could compile 2.6.0 on the target system...
you might need (the equivalent of Debian's) development packages * .
Having got 2.6.0, and again with the requirement of having development
packages ** , you should be able to compile Lazarus.
* libgpm-dev libncurses5-dev
** libgtk2.0-dev plus possible dependencies.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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