Re: [fpc-pascal] Development for Symbian OS (S60 5th edition)

2009-06-28 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 28 Jun 2009, at 22:56, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: As far as I understand, the iPhone runs a similar kernel (freebsd based) as Mac OS X is. It's a bit of an oversimplification to call Mac OS X' kernel "FreeBSD- based". See here for some background: http://books.google.com/books?id=K8vUkpOXh

Re: [fpc-pascal] Development for Symbian OS (S60 5th edition)

2009-06-28 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 28 Jun 2009, at 23:10, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: iPhone runs an arm processor, then you may have a perfectly working x86 application then bang, alignment failure in the arm processor. Actually, you can enable alignment exceptions on x86 as well (although I don't think the iPhone

Re: [fpc-pascal] Development for Symbian OS (S60 5th edition)

2009-06-28 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Jonas Maebe wrote: > is also true for the iPhone, but it's not a problem at all there, because > the x86 simulator is basically Mac OS X/i386 with some extra frameworks (I > didn't have to change anything at all to the i386 compiler for it to > generate working appl

Re: [fpc-pascal] Development for Symbian OS (S60 5th edition)

2009-06-28 Thread Florian Klaempfl
There is still a 1k Bounty for an FPC Symbian port ;) ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Development for Symbian OS (S60 5th edition)

2009-06-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Jonas Maebe wrote: Not really. The problem with the iPhone is that you cannot run any self-written applications on it (in an Apple-sanctioned way) without subscribing to Apple's $99/year developer program. And it's such s**t I don't give a toss about. I paid for the device, I wrote the soft

Re: [fpc-pascal] Development for Symbian OS (S60 5th edition)

2009-06-28 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 28 Jun 2009, at 20:01, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: So basically I should have bought a iPhone instead! ;-) Not really. The problem with the iPhone is that you cannot run any self-written applications on it (in an Apple-sanctioned way) without subscribing to Apple's $99/year developer prog

Re: [fpc-pascal] Development for Symbian OS (S60 5th edition)

2009-06-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: In fact their architecture is so flawed and changes so much between toolkits and versions that I think that trying to port Free Pascal to So basically I should have bought a iPhone instead! ;-) Or I must dust off my trusty Garmin iQue M5 PDA which runs Win

Re: [fpc-pascal] Development for Symbian OS (S60 5th edition)

2009-06-28 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
There is code enough to make some hello world applications for the UIQ 3 simulator, but nothing for real devices. Unfortunately several design flaws in the Symbian architecture make the work of creating a compiler for it much harder then necessary. The flaws include providing a x86 simulator with a

Re: [fpc-pascal] Development for Symbian OS (S60 5th edition)

2009-06-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Florian Klaempfl wrote: Making a Symbian tool chain is unfortunatly a real pain. Thanks, I'll download the Symbian Java SDK and play around with that instead. Regards, - Graeme - fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensof

Re: [fpc-pascal] Development for Symbian OS (S60 5th edition)

2009-06-28 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Jonas Maebe schrieb: > > On 28 Jun 2009, at 11:59, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > >> Does FPC support the above OS? > > I don't think so. Some Symbian support was committed a long time ago, > but I don't think it was ever finished. Making a Symbian tool chain is unfortunatly a real pain. __

Re: [fpc-pascal] Development for Symbian OS (S60 5th edition)

2009-06-28 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 28 Jun 2009, at 11:59, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Does FPC support the above OS? I don't think so. Some Symbian support was committed a long time ago, but I don't think it was ever finished. Jonas ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.f

[fpc-pascal] Development for Symbian OS (S60 5th edition)

2009-06-28 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Hi, Does FPC support the above OS? I purchased a while back a Nokia 5800 phone and would like to try and write some fun utilities for it. It's just unfair that the iPhone users get all the cool apps. :-) Regards, - Graeme - fpGUI - a cross-pl