Free Pascal on Windows Mobile 6.1 (ARM)
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I was immediately VERY interested!
Because I have quite some experience in Pascal from years ago. And I'm
still looking for a way to develop my own little programs for my
PocketPC.
Until now, I struggled with MortScript and PGCC combined. MortScript
being very easy but limited, and PGCC (probably) powerful, but hard to
learn (for a pre-windows Pascal programmer).
So I immediately downloaded the (what I thought) necessary packages and
documentation for Free Pascal.....
The installation still gives me some troubles. I just can't find the
right documentation about how to combine fpc-2.2.2.i386-win32.exe with
fpc-2.2.2.arm-wince.exe. Do I have to merge the directories? Or is there
some kind of "make" required?
I did succeed in running a compiled simple program on both my WinXp
computer and my WM61-arm PocketPC. But separately compiled, with all
kind of brute force to make the compilers do what I wanted. Like
manually renaming exe files, getting rid of this -Opentium3 problem, etc
etc.
After that I gave up, because somehow I cannot find the right
documentation, and my first experiences didn't give me much confidence
in the quality and the possibilities of the whole package.
For instance: is it possible to write a program for my WM61-arm PocketPC
that uploads a file to my website with FTP? This PocketPC is a mobile
phone with Internet access.
If this is actually possible, I am very interested in some kind of
'walkthrough' about how to combine the two installations and whether or
not I need an extra FTP unit or component and how to install this thing.
Or some information about where I can find this in the tons of
information that are available.
I really would like to get started with this Free Pascal, but somehow I
cannot find (or guess) the rules for installing it all.
GMorris
sign up. There are MANY articles there, and I just now typed in "mobile
device" and got hundreds of hits. Hopefully there will be something valuable
that will help. Personally, I've only programmed for standard PC's and
know little about how to do what you want, but the Wiki is a great resource
for these kinds of problems!
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CBFalconer
>
> If you are not subscribed to the Free Pascal Wiki, you should go
> there and sign up. There are MANY articles there, and I just now
> hits. Hopefully there will be something valuable that will help.
> Personally, I've only programmed for standard PC's and know
> little about how to do what you want, but the Wiki is a great
> resource for these kinds of problems!
Please do not top-post. Your answer belongs after (or intermixed
with) the quoted material to which you reply, after snipping all
irrelevant material. See the following links:
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<http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html>
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Try the download section.
GMorris
Look at it
this way:
Way back when, memory, disk space, and general processor & modem speed
made it so that it was much easier to just delete the original post after a
while, since
several people had already quoted it. I, for one, would much rather be able
to
read the response right off UNLESS the original (which I've almost ALWAYS
read already) has been deleted. You do it the way you like, and I'll do it
mine.
If I've already read the original(s) leading up to a post, I'd just as soon
see it first,
since now you KNOW it's a reple to the PREVIOUS post. Like I say, you do it
the way you want, and if you have the power to "ban" me for something that
then
go ahead, BUT..
Please don't give me a hard time about an ancient "ritual". I was there when
all
that started, and really appreciated when I didn't have to scroll down to
the
bottom to read the newest post, bypassing what I'd JUST read. Live with it.
Hell, at least I've got enough sense to quote the original (even though,
like bottom
posting, I don't "have" to.)
To each his own, if you prefer, killfile me.
"CBFalconer" <cbfal...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Marco van de Voort
> Back in the old days, I didn't, but nowadays it's a matter of preference.
> Look at it
> this way:
Please do not toppost.
GMorris
BOTH of you. And read the post before you get all snippety...
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GMorris
I was actually trying to give a useful, and hopefully
helpful answer to someone who needed it. Since I did
not actually KNOW the answer, I kindly directed the
OP to a source which DOES contain information that
is pertinent to their situation. Maybe they will find what
they need, maybe not, but at least I was polite enough
to try, and not give anyone a hard time about where
they write their response. I think that is rude, and any-
one that doesn't like the way I do it is not required in
ANY way to read a darned thing I write! If I got an
answer to something I really needed, it wouldn't matter
to me if it was written on top of Mt. Rushmore with a
huge piece of chalk and photographed by a sattelite,
as long as I got something useful out of it. That's just
ANAL!
Jochen
done. i only read the 1st line.
NoMail...@thisaddress.nl
>Recently, I accidentally stumbled across the latest Free Pascal (2.2.2)
>I was immediately VERY interested!
<SNIP>
>For instance: is it possible to write a program for my WM61-arm PocketPC
>that uploads a file to my website with FTP? This PocketPC is a mobile
>phone with Internet access.
<SNIP>
>I really would like to get started with this Free Pascal, but somehow I
>cannot find (or guess) the rules for installing it all.
Thanks for all the help on this topic everybody, whether top- or
bottomposted :-)
This late reaction is to confirm that I have written a little
experimental FTP program for my mobile phone that actually can upload a
file to my own website.
So it IS possible.
In a nutshell (nobody will be interested in all the struggles I have
been through, I guess) this was what I needed:
Lazarus for Win32 (which includes Free Pascal)
Lazarus for WinCe
lNET component from lnet.wordpress.com
After all the hardship, at last I very reluctantly installed 'yet
another package' (Lazarus), only because this seemed neccessary for
Wince lNET. My hopes were very low, but I was pleasantly surprised to
discover that Lazarus looks a lot like Delphi!
And FTP worked. Very experimental and beta and all.
Marco van de Voort
> Lazarus for Win32 (which includes Free Pascal)
> Lazarus for WinCe
> lNET component from lnet.wordpress.com
>
> After all the hardship, at last I very reluctantly installed 'yet
> another package' (Lazarus), only because this seemed neccessary for
> Wince lNET. My hopes were very low, but I was pleasantly surprised to
> discover that Lazarus looks a lot like Delphi!
> And FTP worked. Very experimental and beta and all.
If you somehow get stuck, have a look at the wininet header. I don't know if
it functions for wince too, but some basic protocols are inthere too.
GMorris
(OOPS - I top-posted; AGAIN!)
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