On Sun, 2011-05-29 at 10:35 +0200, Jonas Maebe wrote: > On 29 May 2011, at 09:33, herux wrote: > > > Do you think FreePascal can be used to compile applications for google > > chrome browser, such as the following link? > > Probably not without changes to the code generator and RTL. Google native > client relies on being able to verify the machine code (similar to how Java > bytecode is verified before execution), which means that it must conform to > certain constraints (I don't know them by heart).
It's possibly quite feasable without too much in the way of changes. Chances are the code generator is fine, I would imagine it does all the non privelaged stuff. I made a proof of concept plugin for FireFox a while back using VX32 which is a similar x86 sandbox system to NativeClient. I made a FPC build with a target for the plugin and had code compiling and running in-browser. Here's a link to to the google code.page http://code.google.com/p/thefbi/wiki/Intro That has the plugin and my mutant hacked FPC. My plugin has a low level interface to IO so an embedded target was the easiest to adjust. For the most part a similar thing should work for NativeClient as well, I don't think a full RTL conversion would be required, or even meaningful in a NativeClient context. Things like Tasks, console IO, sockets, files, windows etc. aren't usable from NativeClient. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
