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Is the lazarus fixes_0_9_28 branch maintained?

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Bo Berglund

I am setting up my dev environment in a new laptop I received just before Xmas. So I have installed FPC 2.4.2 from the installer (windows).

Now I am looking at Lazarus and I know I cannot use the installer from SF since it is about 18 months old. Instaed I have the choice to get the sources from SVN and build myself (simple task).

But now I wonder if I should go for trunk or the fixes_0_9_28 branch? If I remember correctly I have seen that the fixes_0_9_28 branch is no longer maintained, is this really so?
Is there some other branch I should use rather than trunk?

I intend to develop a simple application using serial (RS232) communications, which will later be cross-compiled for an ARM embedded system.

Advice appreciated.

Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden

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Sven Barth
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Bo Berglund wrote
But now I wonder if I should go for trunk or the fixes_0_9_28 branch? If I remember correctly I have seen that the fixes_0_9_28 branch is no longer maintained, is this really so? Is there some other branch I should use rather than trunk?

You could try fixes_0_9_30. It's currently prepared for new release so it might be more stable than trunk and it's definitly better than fixes_0_9_28.

You could also use the provided snapshots that include FPC 2.4.2 as well (they are named 0.9.29 currently, trunk is now 0.9.31). They are provided here: ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/snapshots/

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Sven

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Vincent Snijders
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2011/1/2 Sven Barth :

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On 02.01.2011 18:07, Bo Berglund wrote: > > But now I wonder if I should go for trunk or the fixes_0_9_28 branch? > If I remember correctly I have seen that the fixes_0_9_28 branch is no > longer maintained, is this really so?

Yes, it is not maintained anymore.

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> Is there some other branch I should use rather than trunk? You could try fixes_0_9_30. It's currently prepared for new release so it might be more stable than trunk and it's definitly better than fixes_0_9_28. You could also use the provided snapshots that include FPC 2.4.2 as well (they are named 0.9.29 currently, trunk is now 0.9.31). They are provided here: ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/snapshots/

I couldn't have said it better.

Vincent

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Sven Barth
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Vincent Snijders wrote 21 lines
2011/1/2 Sven Barth: > On 02.01.2011 18:07, Bo Berglund wrote: >> >> But now I wonder if I should go for trunk or the fixes_0_9_28 branch? >> If I remember correctly I have seen that the fixes_0_9_28 branch is no >> longer maintained, is this really so? Yes, it is not maintained anymore. >> Is there some other branch I should use rather than trunk? > > You could try fixes_0_9_30. It's currently prepared for new release so it > might be more stable than trunk and it's definitly better than fixes_0_9_28. > > You could also use the provided snapshots that include FPC 2.4.2 as well > (they are named 0.9.29 currently, trunk is now 0.9.31). They are provided > here: ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/snapshots/ > > I couldn't have said it better.

Thanks ^^

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Sven

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Bo Berglund
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Sven Barth wrote 25 lines
On 02.01.2011 20:31, Vincent Snijders wrote: > 2011/1/2 Sven Barth: >> On 02.01.2011 18:07, Bo Berglund wrote: >>> >>> But now I wonder if I should go for trunk or the fixes_0_9_28 branch? >>> If I remember correctly I have seen that the fixes_0_9_28 branch is no >>> longer maintained, is this really so? > > Yes, it is not maintained anymore. > >>> Is there some other branch I should use rather than trunk? >> >> You could try fixes_0_9_30. It's currently prepared for new release so it >> might be more stable than trunk and it's definitly better than fixes_0_9_28. >> >> You could also use the provided snapshots that include FPC 2.4.2 as well >> (they are named 0.9.29 currently, trunk is now 0.9.31). They are provided >> here: ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/snapshots/ >> >> > > I couldn't have said it better. Thanks ^^

THanks both of you!
I am now getting the fixes_0_9_30 branch in addition to the trunk I already retrieved. I also got the fixes_0_9_28 branch before, but I will delete it now.

Concerning FPC I like to have it separate from Lazarus so I will use the release version 2.4.2 for my further work.

How would I get an fpc cross-compiler for ARM embedded targets? My target runs an embedded version of Debian. But I work in Windows....

Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden

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Bo Berglund
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Bo Berglund wrote
How would I get an fpc cross-compiler for ARM embedded targets? My target runs an embedded version of Debian. But I work in Windows....

Let me make this more precise:
I want to know if there exists an FPC 2.4.2 cross-compiler for the ARM CPU that runs on Windows (my development environment) and produces ARM code?

If so where can I get an installer for it?

I tried to locate it via the FPC website but I think I was lost in the process. I seem to have gotten to compilers running on Linux rather than compilers running on Windows and producing code for Linux on an ARM platform...

Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden

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