On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Jonas Maebe wrote:
> Hello, > > I'm happy to announce that a couple of weeks back, I finally got my iPhone > developer certificate so I could start testing the port. It turned out that > a) the version of Mac OS X on the iPhone really is virtually the same as the > desktop version, so I did not have to change any existing RTL code at all (I > only had to add support for ARM hardware exceptions -- more on that below) > b) the ARM code generator in FPC is quite good, as I did not really have to > fix anything there (and Darwin/ARM uses the OABI rather than the EABI, so no > problems there either) > c) the Darwin/ARM support I added to the compiler earlier on, based on looking > at GCC-generated code and the GCC and LLVM code generators, worked fine as > well (that was a really unexpected but pleasant surprise -- and no, I didn't > secretly test that on a jailbroken iPod or so, I wrote it before I even had my > iPod :) [cut] > > Please note that creating a generally usable distribution with the appropriate > Xcode templates itself is a significant amount of work, and that it may still > take a couple of weeks before that gets finished. > > But apart from that: it works :) Nonetheless: An amazing achievement, so congratulations are in order !! The Lazarus adagio "write once compile anywhere" is getting closer again by a quantum leap :-) Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
