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. > > 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.
Congrulations! I also played with it, but only did a small "Hello World!" program. :-) http://johann-glaser.blogspot.co.at/2012/06/raspberry-pi.html Bye Hansi _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
