HI all,

I need to port a Delphi program to Mac and WinCe, but I've never used FPC. What is the best version of FPC/Lazarus to use ?
Where can I find documentation ?
I also need a ZLibEx (very fast Zlib) compatible library for the Mac. Is there a seperate mac-list ?

Thanks

Paul

Paul wrote

HI all, I need to port a Delphi program to Mac and WinCe, but I've never used FPC. What is the best version of FPC/Lazarus to use ?

FPC 2.2.2
A new lazarus will be released as soon as possible.

Where can I find documentation ?

On the website.
http://www.freepascal.org/docs.html
and
http://wiki.freepascal.org/

I also need a ZLibEx (very fast Zlib) compatible library for the Mac.

If there is a C library on the mac that implements zlibex, then you could use that by translating the headers using h2pas.

Is there a seperate mac-list ?

For FPC, Not that I am aware of. I do think there is a forum on the community website, but I do not know how much it is visited.

Michael.

There is a Mac Pascal list at http://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/mac-pascal

It's not specific to FPC nor Lazarus, but developers of both are present on that list (users of FPC as well; users of Lazarus possibly also but in any case to a lesser extent).

Jonas

For Windows CE the best is using the lastest add-on snapshots:

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Windows_CE_Interface#Using_the_snapshot_add-on_installer

The commonly used solution is cross-compiling from desktop windows.

There is also the stable 0.9.24 release for windows and the corresponding add-on for wince cross-compiling, but there are *lot's* of improvements since them, so I recomend the daily snapshots.

For Mac OS X using Lazarus I recommend FPC 2.2.2 with subversion Lazarus 0.9.25 instead of the stable releases, because we now have a fully functional native Carbon interface for Mac:

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Carbon_Interface

Read the wiki. There is a lot of material there.

Thanks to all,

Paul

Does this support MIPS based CE devices, or only ARM?

Thanks,
Jeff.

FPC does not have a MIPS code generator.

Jonas

Jeff Wormsley wrote

Does this support MIPS based CE devices, or only ARM?

Most people are using ARM, and that's what the pre-compiled compiler is for.

Some people experiment with x86-wince, but I never tested this myself.

The compiler does not support MIPS.