I've just done an apt-get nstall fpc on rpi, running wheezy/jessie - quite a lot of libs downloaded. Is there a smaller download?

Seems to be ver 2.6.2. Appears to work with a quick try compiling. Have you seen any problems using it on wheezy?

Can it be used to compile v2.7 on the rpi, or is some weird cross compile needed?

Have you tried/succeeded in building the latest rpi arm version from trunk eg v2.7.1? Think jonas suggested that it should work (or did he just say that 2.6.4 doesn't work?), but don't know if v2.7.1 is used much. Does it work? If so can you please make it available as a zip or whatever? I can provide an ftp site for you.

TIA john

2014-07-01 11:26 GMT-03:00 John Lee :

I've just done an apt-get nstall fpc on rpi, running wheezy/jessie - quite a lot of libs downloaded. Is there a smaller download?

I install FPC using:

sudo apt-get install fp-compiler

Seems to be ver 2.6.2. Appears to work with a quick try compiling. Have you seen any problems using it on wheezy?

I'm using wheezy armHF (fpc 2.6.0+patch to armhf), and the problem are not when I compile the program and the shared library (I have success to build both), but when I run the program and it try to load the shared library built in FPC static or dynamically using units dl or dynlibs. If I build program in FPC and the shared library on GCC, it can load the shared library, static or dynamically, without problems.

Can it be used to compile v2.7 on the rpi, or is some weird cross compile needed?

I don't know. To compile fpc 2.7.1 on rpi, I uninstalled the fpc 2.6 that comes with wheezy, and installed a fpc copy from here

http://freepascal.thaddy.co.uk/raspberrypi.html

Have you tried/succeeded in building the latest rpi arm version from trunk eg v2.7.1? Think jonas suggested that it should work (or did he just say that 2.6.4 doesn't work?)

Using the FPC 2.7.1 from the cited site, I compiled and installed FPC 2.7.1 trunk successful following these steps:

http://www.michellcomputing.co.uk/blog/2014/05/freepascal-2-7-1-on-raspberry-pi/

When I used the stock fpc 2.6.4, downloaded from

http://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/Linux/2.6.4/fpc-2.6.4.arm-linux.tar/download

It don't works, don't compile my program nor my shared library. I think that the cause of this, is because my distro (wheezy) is ARMHF and fpc stock is ARMEL. Marco warned me about this...

, but don't know if v2.7.1 is used much. Does it work? If so can you please make it available as a zip or whatever? I can provide an ftp site for you.

No and yes. It compiles the program and the shared library, like as fpc 2.6.0+armhf patch, but at runtime, my program can't load my shared library.