Re: [fpc-pascal] ARM / SheevaPlug followup

2009-04-15 Thread Henry Vermaak
2009/4/14 Joe Donth : > I think the SheevaPlug is a great opportunity to promote the > use of FPC in an embedded environment. just had a look into this, very impressive specs. 1.2GHz processor with 512MB ram and nand flash. i downloaded the development tools and the toolchain is eabi, but i gue

Re: [fpc-pascal] ARM / SheevaPlug followup

2009-04-14 Thread Prince Riley
It would seem that its probably best we take some time and try to spec out, test, and the publish the steps to follow since I've been interested in a port like this as well. Can we use the steps followed to port PFC to the MacOS hardware platform when it was non-Intel? Should be be looking at a

Re: [fpc-pascal] ARM / SheevaPlug followup

2009-04-14 Thread Henry Vermaak
2009/4/14 Florian Klaempfl : > Henry Vermaak schrieb: >> first you need to get fpc to work, which means that you might have to >> build an eabi compiler, since most distros (even debian) now use eabi >> (the default arm fpc is oabi). > > Well, not really. Debian stable is still oabi. hmm, accordin

Re: [fpc-pascal] ARM / SheevaPlug followup

2009-04-14 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Henry Vermaak schrieb: > first you need to get fpc to work, which means that you might have to > build an eabi compiler, since most distros (even debian) now use eabi > (the default arm fpc is oabi). Well, not really. Debian stable is still oabi. ___ f

Re: [fpc-pascal] ARM / SheevaPlug followup

2009-04-14 Thread Henry Vermaak
2009/4/14 Joe Donth : > I think the SheevaPlug is a great opportunity to promote the > use of FPC in an embedded environment. > > I need to figure out how to compile a non-GUI FPC program (helloworld.pp) to > run on a SheevaPlug (ARM926EJ-S rev 1 (v5l) > )under Ubuntu. > > I need one of the follow