RP2040 with Picoprobe and FreePascal/Lazarus

[MarkMLl]

Keep your remarks coming, I am sure a number of things can be improved.

Not a lot. Lazarus compares well with VS Code in my opinion, and is vastly better than Eclipse.

Having a wizard for embedded in lazarus would be great but honestly I am more a command-line guy so my motivation on doing gui work is pretty low.

I sympathise. But I think that something needs to be done to make sure the user retains the initial demo's compiler settings as the defaults... or at least knows where to go back to find them.

MarkMLl

[MiR]

I will think about a new chapter on the wiki, something like ‚where to go from here‘ that better explains how to put code in random directories.

[MarkMLl]

I will think about a new chapter on the wiki, something like ‚where to go from here‘ that better explains how to put code in random directories.

On reflection, that might be an FPCUp issue: there's a button specifically for tailoring it to the Pico, so I'd expect that to establish the correct CPU/OS target settings as defaults.

Getting that fixed depends on how refractory the maintainer is...

MarkMLl

[Thaddy]

The maintainer is always on alert.
Better to ask for help, because he is merely on his own, I believe.
He needs a team.

[MarkMLl]

The maintainer is always on alert.
Better to ask for help, because he is merely on his own, I believe.
He needs a team.

Yes, but there's actually two issues here: whether something like the "Pico" button sets up compiler defaults, and whether libraries to go with those project defaults are brought into the development tool tree rather than being left in the example project tree.

MarkMLl
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[MarkMLl]

For anybody else working in this area, I've put a fork of the Picoprobe firmware at https://github.com/MarkMLl/picoprobe_led with substantially improved handling of both a single-colour LED and a WS2812 device (the latter on a WaveShare RP2040-Zero board).

I'd also note that I was talking to a Pico board on a Cytron "Maker Pi Pico". I eventually spent some time playing with some C code on this using cmake and VSCode, something that for some reason I had a lot of trouble with was getting the pinning right so that I could talk to the onboard SD-Card using SPI: for the record these should be MISO 12, CS 15, SCK 10, MOSI 11.

I don't know where we stand with embedding RP2040 PIO state machines in Pascal source or associated resources.

MarkMLl