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. > > http://www.turbocontrol.com/easyfpgui.htm > > [Awesome work there, Paul. You can get much easier than than. Just unpack > and you are ready to work.] > > It works fantastically well. I could compile all the fpGUI demos without > me having to do anything extra in fpGUI. How cool is that! :-) > > All I had to do to get my projects to link successfully, was to install a > few missing packages, which were not included with the Debian 6 distro for > the Pi. > > sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get install libX11-dev libXft-dev > > I'll have to speak to somebody to see if they could include it as standard > - after all, the Pi is meant for developers to play with. If anybody has > contacts, please let me know. > > 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). > > We (our company) have some big plans for the Raspberry Pi, with a > potentially huge deployment. The first tests with this device is very > promising. > > Kudos must also go to the FPC team, for supporting ARM so well! > > Maybe with the Raspberry Pi and Free Pascal, we can get Object Pascal back > on the map, and in the hands of young developers. After all, Pascal was > initially designed as a teaching language - easy to learn, read and write.
Awesome! Marcos Douglas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
