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PostPosted: Sun Apr 12, 2020 5:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

n1ese,

Tell us more ... but maybe it should be a new topic?
fpc & lazarus ... Thats the Free Pascal Compiler, that's written in Pascal and its development environment if I remember correctly.

It might be more educational for us all to help you help yourself :)
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 12, 2020 5:43 pm    Post subject: fpc & lazarus Reply with quote

Trying to figure out how to get fpc & lazarus built for my arm64 devices. I have some applications I need to compile that require the Free Pascal Compiler. From what I know, it can't be compiled natively on arm64 and has to be cross-compiled from say an x86 platform. I only have arm64 devices.

There is an ebuild for both but it says it doesn't support arm64.

Code:
>>> Unpacking source...
 * ERROR: dev-lang/fpc-3.0.4::gentoo failed (unpack phase):
 *   This ebuild doesn't support arm64.



Thoughts on how to figure this out?
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 12, 2020 5:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok, I dug into google a bit deeper. Looks like v3.0.4 of fpc doesn't support aarch64 at all. 3.2.0 adds support for aarch64 but there is no ebuild for it so I will try compiling it manually. Im not clear if it can be compiled natively but I will give it a go.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 12, 2020 5:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

n1ese,

The fpc needs the fpc to build itself, so as you say, to get started someone somewhere has to cross compile frc.
fpc-3.0.4.ebuild:
DESCRIPTION="Free Pascal Compiler"
SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/freepascal/fpcbuild-${PV}.tar.gz
        mirror://sourceforge/freepascal/fpc-${PV}.source.tar.gz
        amd64? ( mirror://sourceforge/freepascal/${P}.x86_64-linux.tar )
        x86? ( mirror://sourceforge/freepascal/${P}.i386-linux.tar )
        doc? ( mirror://sourceforge/freepascal/Documentation/${PV}/doc-html.tar.gz -> ${P}-doc-html.tar.gz )"

so the ebuild starts off by fetching the binary fpc for your arch.

The Lazarus fourms suggest that it can be made to work but that looks non trivial.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 12, 2020 6:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sweet, there is a binary for fpc 3.2.0rc1. Hopefully lazarus will compile fine next.

Code:
n1ese@ganymede ~ $ tar -xvf Downloads/fpc-3.2.0rc1.aarch64-linux.tar
fpc-3.2.0rc1.aarch64-linux/
fpc-3.2.0rc1.aarch64-linux/doc-pdf.tar.gz
fpc-3.2.0rc1.aarch64-linux/install.sh
fpc-3.2.0rc1.aarch64-linux/demo.tar.gz
fpc-3.2.0rc1.aarch64-linux/binary.aarch64-linux.tar
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 12, 2020 10:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

well, well.. this was much easier than I thought. fpc & laz compiled and installed correctly.

Release versions do not work with aarch64 it seems. I downloaded fpc-3.2.0rc1 aarch64 binary package and checked out the svn trunk of lazarus. All seems well.

Code:
n1ese@ganymede ~ $ fpc -v
Free Pascal Compiler version 3.2.0rc1 [2020/02/26] for aarch64
Copyright (c) 1993-2020 by Florian Klaempfl and others

n1ese@ganymede ~ $ lazarus-ide -v
2.1.0 SVN Revision: 62952
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 12, 2020 10:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

n1ese,

Thank you for posting that.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 06, 2020 10:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I did it on Manjaro on a Pinebook Pro.

The instructions are here https://wiki.freepascal.org/Install_on_aarch64_Arch_or_Manjaro
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