Subj : OpenXP compiles on ARM (kind of)
To   : acn
From : Oli
Date : Sun Sep 12 2021 10:45 am


 O> acn wrote (2021-09-11):
 a>> I hope that eg. OpenXP would still be compatible with your ideas.
 a>> Because, as I see it, many of the original authors of this (really
 a>> great and superior to most other similar) program aren't part of the
 a>> current development team. And as I understand it, the current team
 a>> mostly only fixes small bugs - but there won't be much progress eg.
 a>> for new platforms (arm...) and there won't be big rewrites eg. of the
 a>> BinkP part.

Btw, OpenXP has a sysop mode, which should work fine with an external mailer.

 O> I downloaded OpenXP and tried to compile it on my Raspi, which didn't
 O> work out of the box. Is there anything that would make a port hard to
 O> achieve? It's FreePascal, little endian, 32 bit. There was some
 O> assembler, but I don't know how much of it is non-optional and needs to
 O> be ported to Pascal.

I gave it another try and was able to compile an run OpenXP on my Raspi. This doesn't mean its fully functional, because I cheated a little bit. There are two units with asm code. I commented out the assembler parts, which means something will not work or will crash in my OpenXP build. I haven't tested much. Config menus, help and binkp netcall works though. I haven't spotted anything unusual (yet).

If someone wants to help the project: the documentation for compiling on Linux (and maybe on other platforms too) could need some cleanup. There are several readmes and scripts in different directories and most of them are outdated. The RPM build file openxp.spec was the most helpful one.


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