Cross compiling for ARM Linux

[jboavida]

Dear all,

I'm a long time user of Delphi, so Pascal is my natural choice for programming. I' starting a new project that involves ARM processors under Linux OS.
Please see: http://www.friendlyarm.net/products/mini2440
This little board as some toolchains but all in C. I wonder if I can develop applications to this using Lazarus.
Developing environment will be windows, output ARM LINUX. The board uses Qtopia distribution.
The ARM is ARM9, but I dont see any reference to ARM families in Lazarus. Can anyone point me in the right direction please? I really dont want to learn C...

Thanks

Jaoquim

[Leledumbo]

AFAIK FPC supports ARM7 and ARM9, at least for its GBA (or NDS) target. I believe you can build FPC application for it, but a Lazarus application... only if it has gtk(2) or qt installed.

What you need:

• arm-linux GNU assembler and linker (fpc svn has it, justgoogle)
• fpc and all required packages (rtl, fcl, lcl, + other 3rd party packages you'd like to use) cross compiled to arm linux (see wiki on how to set it up)
  

[Troodon]

AFAIK FPC supports ARM7 and ARM9

Do you think it might support this CPU: TI OMAP 850 (core = ARM926EJ-S)? It looks like an ARM9 processor to me.

Update: It does. Today, for the first time, I have run on this smartphone (an HTC Touch Elfin w/ Windows Mobile 6.1) one of my applications developed in Lazarus/FPC for WinCE (ARM). It has run exactly as expected, as in the Windows Mobile 6.1 Emulator, with graphics and audio. Way to go, Lazarus/FPC team!

[Vincent Snijders]

Troodon, I am pleased / amazed to hear that you got things working on arm-linux too.

[Troodon]

you got things working on arm-linux too.

Vincent... "Windows Mobile 6.1"

[Vincent Snijders]

Troodon, I am confused about this thread...

[Troodon]

I know, it was my mistake to post that information here... sorry about that.