Thanks Chebmaster. RPi 2 and years ago and emulations. I can imagine monstrously slow.

For my part I'm glad to be able make something at all for the Pi but the platform is very interesting and worth trying, I think.
I figure if a program runs on a Pi it can run smoothly on almost any PC ( if successful compilation on both platforms ).

I hope the Lazarus team one day creates some neat solution for installing their software on Raspberry too.