On 10/26/07, Matt Emson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Krishna wrote: > > Another thing, the code produced for the winemulator target is x86 > > code or arm code? > Depends. The Visual Studio 2003 emulator is x86. Based on the VirtualPC > core product. The Visual Studio 2005.. um.. I don't remember. I know > Microsoft provide an ARM emulator that runs dog slow. I had the emulator > and WM6 images about 5 months ago in my last job. Testing against the > x86 emulator is only good for quick tests. Nothing beats debugging on a > real device. If you pony up the cash, you can do that with VS2003 or VS2005. > > Let me just point out.. and this isn't a troll, it's my own experience: > The end user does not care what your application is written in. Just so > long as it works. As such, I would recommend Compact Framework and > managed code for any Windows Mobile device. The memory footprint is > minimal - all WM5 devices I have used (and we used quite a few brands) > have the Compact Framework in ROM. Speed wise, it's fast. It doesn't > crawl at all. Given the significant bugs Microsoft had in their native > code SQL Server CE 2.0 - as an example of native code on mobile > devices, C# and CF.NET make life far, far, far simpler. I found it > cut development time down by between 50% and 70%. I can't even look at > old code written using C anymore. Shudder. >
We are talking about Symbian OS here. For linux and windows mobile devices, I understand you can use FPC directly, right? > As for the FPC compiler targeting CLR.. It could be done. But why would > you need to? Use Chrome instead. Why reinvent the wheel. I see no > advantage in porting Legacy Pascal code to a new disparate platform. > Especially when said platform does things a lot more pleasurably. Legacy Pascal? Din't generics get added in the last release? Anyways, I'm not asking for a CLR/JVM port. FPC already generates code for the target (here, ARM) it is only the OS interface that we are talking about. Cheers, -Krishna -- One reason that life is complex is that it has a real part and an imaginary part -Andrew Koenig _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal