http://turbocontrol.com/gnuroot.htm is a new (unpublished) web page. Feedback appreciated!

2014-03-15 15:39 GMT-03:00 Paul Breneman :

http://turbocontrol.com/gnuroot.htm is a new (unpublished) web page. Feedback appreciated!

Nice! Can you compile Brook framework* in your tool checking if it is compatible with ARM? Thank you!

* - http://silvioprog.github.io/brookframework/

Really interesting!

Please fix typo: "chmod 755 ppcaarm" should be "chmod 755 ppcarm".

I hope to see a GUI Hello World soon.

Sandro

Thanks for the feedback.

My main specialty is communication software (
www.turbocontrol.com/APro.htm ), so right now that is what I'm working on. I have a USB hub working with a keyboard on my Nexus 7 (via OTG), but a FTDI USB-serial adapter doesn't show up in /dev so I hope to get that (and some other Bluetooth and TCP/IP stuff) working next.

But a GUI Hello World would be nice! I did install the "libc-dev" package to compile a Synapse Synaser program so if anyone wants to try www.CtrlTerm.com that would be appreciated.

My main (first) goal in this is to be able to run a single program (for machine control) on an inexpensive tablet. Maybe even with embedded Firebird (I have an Android tablet with an Intel CPU if that is needed).

On 03/15/2014 07:33 PM, Paul Breneman wrote:
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If someone wants to help, here are some ideas:
- Get the arm linux release from www.CtrlTerm.com and unzip it and use this to compile other code (below).

To try to get comm code working:
- Get the arm linux console serial release from this page and copy DlpTempG.pas to the CtrlTerm folder. It compiled and ran for me, but it didn't find a port.
http://turbocontrol.com/simpleserial.htm

To try to get x11 working:
-) Get the arm linux zip from here and copy to the CtrlTerm folder: http://turbocontrol.com/simplewindow.htm

I've not got a Nexus but I suggest looking to see whether whoever's made the adapter (using the FTDI chip) has given it a vid:pid that the OS doesn't recognise. I think that fiddling with kernel module parameters or editing the identifier info into a config file are beyond what the average user can be expected to do.

But a GUI Hello World would be nice! I did install the "libc-dev" package to compile a Synapse Synaser program so if anyone wants to try www.CtrlTerm.com that would be appreciated.

Some patches for serial.pp were recently applied to 2.7.1. This is for low-level access and requires that you do the thread handling yourself, but doesn't require libc etc. It was tested on ARM Linux when written.

My main (first) goal in this is to be able to run a single program (for machine control) on an inexpensive tablet. Maybe even with embedded Firebird (I have an Android tablet with an Intel CPU if that is needed).

The USB-serial adapter works everywhere else so I think it is fine. I'm guessing that GNURoot may prevent any communication? I need to do more testing.

About 7 years ago seeing you participating was what convinced me that Free Pascal was worth trying on embedded systems, so thanks for your help (again) Mark! :)

Paul Breneman wrote

The USB-serial adapter works everywhere else so I think it is fine. I'm guessing that GNURoot may prevent any communication? I need to do more testing.

What I was trying to suggest was that the OS might not know about the vid:pid pair that represented that device.

About 7 years ago seeing you participating was what convinced me that Free Pascal was worth trying on embedded systems, so thanks for your help (again) Mark! :)

:-)

Yes, I understood that, but as the OS is Debian 7.4 I doubt that is the problem (so I didn't yet check further). Since wget works in the GNURoot terminal it seems that (some) communication should work. I also tested the Free Vision testapp example, so it still looks hopeful to do non-root apps on Android for machine control. :)

On 03/15/2014 07:33 PM, Paul Breneman wrote:
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Well, maybe I can wait on doing more with Free Vision and use fpGUI instead! :)

GNURoot has been updated! See this text: "WheezyX rootfs type added - it has Xterms working. After launching it, use a vncviewer on your Android device or you PC to connect to it." Now I hope to get Control Terminal working (first for WiFi and Bluetooth, then with USB OTG for Ethernet and Serial)!

http://turbocontrol.com/gnuroot.htm

I just updated the above web page with a Control Terminal console program that uses Synapse to get the header of a web page. Nice to see what can be done with a 2 MB zip and Free Pascal and Synapse. Thanks for the great tools!

Can I reply to a 3 year old message? I could use some help and feedback with this *simple* topic!

GNUroot (with new Android versions) no longer works with Free Pascal so I made this new page that has a link to a new wiki page: http://controlpascal.com/self-hosted.htm

Regards,
Paul

There is a *new* Android program *UserLAnd* that replaces GNUroot so hopefully we'll soon have Free Pascal working again on Debian on Android: www.turbocontrol.com/userland.htm

Yes, I know that Free Pascal works on straight Debian (and Raspbian)...

It works and looks *easy* again. Web page updated a little as I go celebrate!

Fpc 3.0.0 AArch64 appears to work on my Android phone!

Trying to get fpcup to work to get 3.0.4?

www.turbocontrol.com/userland.htm is updated.

After almost another year (I'm almost retired but still having fun) the userland page above has been updated and things are working for my AARCH64 phone with FPC 3.2 beta!