Graeme Geldenhuys 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.
Hi Graeme, I got my RPi a couple of days ago so we are on the same page!
:) Thanks for all your great work with fpGUI!
I used this *very* easy method to load Debian on my RPi:
http://www.berryterminal.com/doku.php/berryboot
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).
DbgTerm doesn't compile so I hope to update SynaSer for that ASAP.
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.
I have the separate pieces on the educational project page and hope to
write a tutorial soon so a 12-year-old could spend less than $100 (US)
and program an embedded RPi to monitor house temperatures and send
emails and text messages (daily or more often if temps out of range).
I also think we should take advantage of the RPi educational
opportunities. If someday we can get a phone with native Linux that too
will hopefully be easy to program like the RPi.
www.TurboControl.com/monitor.htm
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