Anyone try to install lazarus on Banana Pi

[ttomas]

Banana Pi is like Repberry Pi single board computer, but use ARM V7 CPU, Respberry use ARM V6.
http://www.bananapi.org/
Compared to Respberry Banana Pi Have:
ARM V7 Dual Core 1GHz CPU
1 GB RAM
Camera Connection
TFT Connection
SATA
GBit LAN
I like to buy one, but don'y know if lazarus can be built and run on this device.

[avra]

http://wiki.bananapi.org/index.php/Template:MainPage_Intro
This page mentions "Lubuntu, Raspbian, Archlinux, openSUSE and other operation systems", so yes, Lazarus can be installed at least from distro repo.

[rain]

With Lubuntu_1404_For_BananaPi_v3_1_1.img and

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install fpc
apt-get install lazarus

I got fpc 2.6.2 and Lazarus 1.0.10. (See screenshot (SSH-X-forwarded ARM-Lazarus Aboutbox towards Windows, therefore the Windows border)).
Not the freshest one,  but it works well.
CodeTyphon 4.92 does not yet support ARM Host systems. ( Tried it, messed up everything instead of quitting due to unsupported Host architecture - had to reflash the SD-Card finally).

By the way: A compiled simple graphical test application, compiled on Lubuntu BananaPi (ARM7) also runs unmodified on Raspbian Raspberry Pi (ARM6), without re-compilation, so that tells something about the fpc-ARM-compiler.

[ttomas]

Hi rain
Can you compare Banana vs Respberry: quality, preformance, etc.
Or maybe suggest some other board
I will mostly use board for home automation and TV media extensions
FPC trunk 2.7.1 have more ARM improvements

[avra]

@ttomas:

Here is a comparison:
http://hardware-libre.fr/2014/06/raspberry-vs-banana-hardware-duel

and here is something if you need power:
http://www.cnx-software.com/2014/01/14/radxa-rock-and-odroid-u3-quad-core-development-boards-comparison/

[BigChimp]

... and fpcup will run on odroid and happily install fpc trunk+Lazarus trunk for you; see
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Odroid

Edit: note: although the fpcup armhf binary probably works for other boards as well IIRC, just haven't tested it...