Lazarus/FPC alternative for Raspberry Pi
lazarus / 1-Linux

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ArminLinder · 2023-03-25 13:20

Hi all,

for small applicance-like projects I do enjoy the Pi because of it's
full blown OS, especially for debugging, and less often for
development.

For some reasons the PI isn't available at reasonable prices any more.

Does anyone have real life experience with Lazarus/FPC on an
alternative board which offers roughly the same features, community
support and stability like the Raspberry Pi 3B+ or Raspberry Pi 4?

Thnx, Armin

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PierceNg · 2023-03-25 14:21

I got an Orange Pi 3 LTS recently. It is now running Armbian Buster
CLI version. I built FPC trunk aarch64 cross compiler for it from my
Ubuntu 20.04 x86_64. At least below test program from the wiki works
on the device. I am not  planning to run Lazarus on it.

I chose this board because it is cheap and available. :-) Bought it
for play, don't really care about stability or community support. Only
just found out there is unlikely to be a driver for the onboard Mali
GPU.

Code: [Select]program test;
begin
  writeln('DATE ',{$i %DATE%});
  writeln('FPCTARGET ',{$i %FPCTARGET%});
  writeln('FPCTARGETCPU ',{$i %FPCTARGETCPU%});
  writeln('FPCTARGETOS ',{$i %FPCTARGETOS%});
  writeln('FPCVERSION ',{$i %FPCVERSION%});
end.

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Curt Carpenter · 2023-03-25 14:24

Not used the Orange, but you might want to check it out here:
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Thaddy · 2023-03-25 15:21

Quote from: Nimral on March 25, 2023, 02:20:54 pmFor some reasons the
PI isn't available at reasonable prices any more.
"For some reasons" simply means some parts are not readily available
since some EU export (ASML) and import rules.
Although most Raspberry Pi's are produced in Wales in a Sony owned
factory.

When you ask politely I still have some RPi3's I can miss (and free,
except postage if it is outside Europe).

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nouzi · 2023-03-25 16:48

see this , It might be useful
https://youtu.be/UscGS3ZQeqY

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ArminLinder · 2023-03-25 20:23

Thanks for bringing the Orange Pi to my attention. I ordered a tets
unit, and will give Lazarus a try on it.

@Thaddy; you got a PM :-)

Armin