WinCE port

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The WinCE port is under development. Currently only WinCE on ARM and i386 (WinCE emulator) is supported.

Status

The 2.1.x compiler has compiler support for arm-wince and a partial working system unit.

TODO

  • Converting PocketPC SDK headers to Windows unit is needed. It is main show-stopper now.

Building

At a certain point this breaks when the native compiler is compiled. This doesn't hurt, because you usually don't need the native compiler.

You should end with the units compiled to fpc/rtl/units/arm-wince and a ppccrossarm.exe in fpc/compiler. Copy them to locations fitting your fpc installation.

Documentation

WinCE port notes

  • chdir always produces an error (WinCE does not support setting of current directory).
  • All file/dir paths must be absolute (started with \).
  • WinCE is unicode OS. All string parameters to API calls must be PWideChar.

First tests

  • There is a writeln pb : text to std output give a runtime error 103. So trying the same code with evc -> result: nothing appear.
  • In fact cmd.exe is not installed by default on pda's ie not text console, no CON: device but this can be installed with external

tools (ms provide one with PowerToys,there are others on the net)

  • After that cmd.exe is installed, running the previous simpliest printf progs, show the expected text in a text window, existing of console.dll in \windows dir have been detected and stdout configured at runtime.
  • The only difference is that a new console is opened every time, even if hello.exe is run from a console !

Links

Contacts

Write any questions regarding WinCE port to Yury Sidorov