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| + | * (general fpcup problem) when rebuilding lazarus, you may get a warning about missing startlazarus. You can ignore it. | ||
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Revision as of 12:24, 27 January 2014
Overview
Odroid are ARM devices manufactured by HardKernel.
U2, U3
These devices contain a Samsung ARM chip
- instruction set: ARMv7A
- floating point coprocessor (FPU): VFPv3
Operating systems: Xubuntu (ARMHF; hardfloat), Android.
Installing FPC/Lazarus using fpcup
This section focuses on using Linux on the Odroids.
- FPC 2.6.x
As the provided Linux is ARMHF, standard FPC 2.6.x is not suitable (insufficient ARMHF support0. Perhaps the custom FPC 2.6.x from Raspbian could be used (haven't tried it)
- FPC trunk
The easiest way to install FPC trunk and Lazarus is to run fpcup which will use a 2.6.x bootstrap compiler to build a trunk ARMHF intermediate compiler. Now the regular FPC and Lazarus environments are built by fpcup.
Note that fpcup is a thin wrapper around the regular svn/make FPC/Lazarus install process, so if you're uncomfortable with this process, it may not be for you.
Instructions - to be run as a regular user:
- Install prerequisites for Lazarus and subversion, e.g. something like:
sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libpango1.0-dev subversion
#build-essential may also be necessary
- Download fpcup_linux_armhf (or perhaps fpcup_linux_arm) and fpcupodroid.ini into a directory (say ~)
- Make fpcup executable:
chmod ug+rx fpcup_linux_armhf #replace filename with proper name if different
- Run fpcup, telling it to use the [General] profile in fpcupodroid.ini:
./fpcup_linux_armhf --inifile=fpcupodroid.ini #replace filename with proper name if different
Use the same command for updating.
fpcup will create desktop shortcuts etc. For more details, please see the fpcup wiki page.
Notes:
- currently fpcup will do a make distclean before installing/updating, which may stress your memory card. Contributions for relevant settings in fpcupodroid.ini welcome.
- (general fpcup problem) you may have to rebuild Lazarus yourself (Tools/Build Lazarus) to get all packages/controls fpcup installed for you.
- (general fpcup problem) when rebuilding lazarus, you may get a warning about missing startlazarus. You can ignore it.
See also
- fpcup Main fpcup page. Details on settings, troubleshooting, bug reporting, cross compilers etc.
- Lazarus on Raspberry Pi Raspbian also is ARMHF but has an older ARM processor architecture.
