Developing FreePascal on TI ARM64 SoC.

[HKPhysicist]

Hello FreePascal Experts,
I am new to Pascal.   

I am planning to develop FreePascal applications on a Beagle board with TI ARM64 SoC.  Beagle SoC uses Debian OS clones.

• So, can I install the FreePascal deb packages for RaspPi5 onto my beagle board OS?
• How do I write Pascal codes to communicate with my board's standard 9600bps UART?

Yours faithfully.   

[ccrause]

Welcome! If your board runs Linux you should be able to install FPC from the standard distribution package manager. Using the UART should (in theory) be straight forward, search for any Linux serial examples.

[Thaddy]

1. FreePascal and Lazarus are in the Debian AARCH64 repositories. For freePascal, in recent Debian distributions this is the same version as the official freepascal one: 3.2.2. Mind you: the Lazarus version in the Debian repositories is slightly older than the official Lazarus distribution.
2. Download an official distribution from sourceforge.
3. BeagleBoards have a card reader.
4. Download fpcupdeluxe and run that for linux64/aarch64

There is no need for a RPi5/AARCH64 specific distribution, don't even use it, because there is none....
You need this one:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/Linux/3.2.2/fpc-3.2.2.aarch64-linux.tar/download

[HKPhysicist]

Very nice.  Thank you.  Let me try.   

[Thaddy]

First install build-essential, after that install simply fpc from debian repo. This will instal fpc-3.2.2 on bookworm or trixie.

[HKPhysicist]

Yes, I have installed this in Beagleplay:
sudo apt install fpc

but the Lazarus is old, just v2, so I refuse this version.

[HKPhysicist]

FPC Up Deluxe is so cool!
https://github.com/LongDirtyAnimAlf/fpcupdeluxe/releases/tag/v2.4.0h
 

[HKPhysicist]

First install build-essential, after that install simply fpc from debian repo. This will instal fpc-3.2.2 on bookworm or trixie.

Friend,
How to compile or install the newest Lazarus IDE in TI Debian clone if it already has the newest FPC?

[ccrause]

There are several options to get Lazarus:
Install from a .deb: https://download.lazarus-ide.org/Lazarus%20Linux%20arm64%20DEB/Lazarus%204.4/

Or build Lazarus from source:

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1. $ git clone --single-branch -b lazarus_4_4 https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/lazarus/lazarus.git lazarus
2. $ make bigide
3. $ sudo make install

This wiki page has more details and also list some external packages required by Lazarus.

[HKPhysicist]

Thank you.