FPC 4 GBA Update!

**WILL** · 28-05-2006, 10:46 PM

Its seems that the FPC 4 GBA Team's efforts have paid off! Florian Klaempfl has commited a GBA RTL to the Free Pascal Compiler source repository with the complete rewrite done by Francesco Lombardi aka Legolas. A binary will soon become available!

Free Pascal now officially supports the GameBoy Advance platform!

Also, the FPC 4 GBA page has recently been updated: FPC4GBA.PascalGameDevelopment.com

More information on Free Pascal and the new GameBoy Advance targetting can be found at www.FreePascal.org!

**savage** · 30-05-2006, 09:01 AM

Great News. Now if we could just get it working on the PlayStation Portable and the upcoming PS3 as well

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**WILL** · 31-05-2006, 02:44 AM

That a MIPS world thing my friend.

We're banking on ARM7 and ARM9 sets here. The next biggest issue is implimenting specific features of these sets.

But for now... word of mouth and sending the word out everywhere.

**Legolas** · 31-05-2006, 12:19 PM

Originally Posted by WILL

That a MIPS world thing my friend.

We're banking on ARM7 and ARM9 sets here. The next biggest issue is implimenting specific features of these sets.

But for now... word of mouth and sending the word out everywhere.

ARM7 for sure. About ARM9: yesterday I have made an attempt to compile something for nintendo ds, but the executable crashes the emulator. Really I don't know if is something wrong in my port (though I followed same steps I done for gba). Because the NDS have two CPU (arm7 and arm9), I'll try to make an hybrid executable, with the arm7 part built with fpc and the arm9 one built with gcc. If it will work, then we will need an arm9-aimed compiler

**savage** · 31-05-2006, 12:35 PM

When will the guys at FPC announce this on freepascal.org. I wonder if there is anyone at Sony we could contact to talk about PS3 and FreePascal. When the PS3 comes out, since it will be running a Linux OS I will look at seeing if I can get FreePascal working on there.

**cairnswm** · 31-05-2006, 12:43 PM

Whats needed to make it work for the GP2X?

http://gp2x.co.uk/devx2.html

it has 2 ARM processors:
http://www.gp2x.com/product/specification.asp?part=02

**Legolas** · 31-05-2006, 12:49 PM

Originally Posted by cairnswm

Whats needed to make it work for the GP2X?

http://gp2x.co.uk/devx2.html

it has 2 ARM processors:
http://www.gp2x.com/product/specification.asp?part=02

Maybe lack of ARM9 support. Apart that, porting it to gp2x should be easy enough

**savage** · 31-05-2006, 01:26 PM

There's even an SDL port for it - http://sdl-gp32.sourceforge.net/

**Legolas** · 31-05-2006, 01:52 PM

Originally Posted by savage

There's even an SDL port for it - http://sdl-gp32.sourceforge.net/

There is for nds and gba too

I'm wondering about the possibility to mix sdl for gba and sdl for fpc :think:

**savage** · 31-05-2006, 03:44 PM

It would be nice to know if the JEDI-SDL libraries work on GBA as well.

Though I strangely suspect the only way to use SDL on these platforms is via statically linking to the *.lib file rather dynamically linking to a *.so file.