Lazarus

Installation => Linux => Topic started by: ArminLinder on March 25, 2023, 02:20:54 pm

Title: Lazarus/FPC alternative for Raspberry Pi
Post by: ArminLinder on March 25, 2023, 02:20:54 pm

Hi all,

for small applicance-like projects I do enjoy the Pi because of it's full blown OS, especially for debugging, and less often for development.

For some reasons the PI isn't available at reasonable prices any more.

Does anyone have real life experience with Lazarus/FPC on an alternative board which offers roughly the same features, community support and stability like the Raspberry Pi 3B+ or Raspberry Pi 4?

Thnx, Armin

Title: Re: Lazarus/FPC alternative for Raspberry Pi
Post by: PierceNg on March 25, 2023, 03:21:14 pm

I got an Orange Pi 3 LTS recently. It is now running Armbian Buster CLI version. I built FPC trunk aarch64 cross compiler for it from my Ubuntu 20.04 x86_64. At least below test program from the wiki works on the device. I am not  planning to run Lazarus on it.

I chose this board because it is cheap and available. :-) Bought it for play, don't really care about stability or community support. Only just found out there is unlikely to be a driver for the onboard Mali GPU.

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program test;
begin
  writeln('DATE ',{$i %DATE%});
  writeln('FPCTARGET ',{$i %FPCTARGET%});
  writeln('FPCTARGETCPU ',{$i %FPCTARGETCPU%});
  writeln('FPCTARGETOS ',{$i %FPCTARGETOS%});
  writeln('FPCVERSION ',{$i %FPCVERSION%});
end.

Title: Re: Lazarus/FPC alternative for Raspberry Pi
Post by: Curt Carpenter on March 25, 2023, 03:24:08 pm

Not used the Orange, but you might want to check it out here:
https://campaign.aliexpress.com/wow/gcp/tesla-pc-new/index?UTABTest=aliabtest377151_530968&src=google&src=google&albch=shopping&acnt=708-803-3821&slnk=&plac=&mtctp=&albbt=Google_7_shopping&albagn=888888&isSmbAutoCall=false&needSmbHouyi=false&albcp=19158444193&albag=&trgt=&crea=en3256802989624160&netw=x&device=c&albpg=&albpd=en3256802989624160&gclid=Cj0KCQjwt_qgBhDFARIsABcDjOeRu69QbRDHTyHfJMKDp66UQ_y7CCf-4Lu9kBGBqX6YcREs65BNQDQaAt5EEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds&aff_fcid=6a0e675f0f394206b6a6ff3677268dbf-1679754116246-07643-UneMJZVf&aff_fsk=UneMJZVf&aff_platform=aaf&sk=UneMJZVf&aff_trace_key=6a0e675f0f394206b6a6ff3677268dbf-1679754116246-07643-UneMJZVf&terminal_id=f1b69a74eab245ff9f29e92d4216823b&wh_weex=true&wx_navbar_hidden=true&wx_navbar_transparent=true&ignoreNavigationBar=true&wx_statusbar_hidden=true&bt_src=ppc_direct_lp&scenario=pcBridgePPC&productId=3256802989624160&OLP=1085100208_f_group2&o_s_id=1085100208

Title: Re: Lazarus/FPC alternative for Raspberry Pi
Post by: Thaddy on March 25, 2023, 04:21:40 pm

Quote from: Nimral on March 25, 2023, 02:20:54 pm

For some reasons the PI isn't available at reasonable prices any more.

"For some reasons" simply means some parts are not readily available since some EU export (ASML) and import rules.
Although most Raspberry Pi's are produced in Wales in a Sony owned factory.

When you ask politely I still have some RPi3's I can miss (and free, except postage if it is outside Europe).

Title: Re: Lazarus/FPC alternative for Raspberry Pi
Post by: nouzi on March 25, 2023, 05:48:01 pm

see this , It might be useful
https://youtu.be/UscGS3ZQeqY

Title: Re: Lazarus/FPC alternative for Raspberry Pi
Post by: ArminLinder on March 25, 2023, 09:23:53 pm

Thanks for bringing the Orange Pi to my attention. I ordered a tets unit, and will give Lazarus a try on it.

@Thaddy; you got a PM :-)

Armin