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Title: Freepascal
Post by: chris08 on May 29, 2005, 04:19:26 pm

Has anyone tried Freepascal (http://www.freepascal.org) for or even better ON the Zaurus already? It might be a lightweight alternative to gcc for quick development on the road.

Greetings
Chris

Title: Freepascal
Post by: ScottYelich on May 29, 2005, 04:22:27 pm

er, not to start a holy war... but, alas, it's pascal!

I am using g++ on the pda -- it SUCKS as a primary development
platform.. but you know what -- it does work.  So, I do 99% of my stuff
off the PDA and only make minor changes, etc.

But, ya, tcc for c is awesome... even on PDA.  perl is pretty good...
python is ok/not-bad... etc.   Look into tcc.

Scott

Title: Freepascal
Post by: chris08 on May 29, 2005, 04:55:03 pm

Hi Scott,

well I think opensource is about freedom of choice
I have been working on several large pascal (Delphi) projects in the last couple of years, and I think pascal is a pretty nice language (but then again, beauty is in the eye of the beholder), but you are right, no point in starting a holy war here
I'll give freepascal on pdaxrom a try when I get some sparetime on my hands. I'll take a look at tcc though, thanks for the hint! Just wanted to know I maybe someone has tried this before.

Take care
Chris

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er, not to start a holy war... but, alas, it's pascal!

I am using g++ on the pda -- it SUCKS as a primary development
platform.. but you know what -- it does work.  So, I do 99% of my stuff
off the PDA and only make minor changes, etc.

But, ya, tcc for c is awesome... even on PDA.  perl is pretty good...
python is ok/not-bad... etc.   Look into tcc.

Scott
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Title: Freepascal
Post by: cortez on May 30, 2005, 04:58:20 am

Chris,

You're right, freedom of choice is the most important issue here. If Pascal is the language you prefer, you definitely have to give FreePascal a try. It's absolutely brilliant!

One remark though, only cross-compiling to ARM is supported at this time. So no "quick development on the road" as you said, at least not yet.

Title: Freepascal
Post by: ScottYelich on May 31, 2005, 03:25:45 pm

hey, don't get me wrong...
I'd rather have the choice than not!

:-)

Scott