I just want shortly give a progress report on Freepascal and LCL porting to AROS.

Freepascal
- fixed some errors, especially BPTR, BSTR as FileHandles now working also for Streams
- fixed argument handling with Quotes ("")
- fixed Resource compiler (needed for LCL)

LCL/Lazarus:
Lazarus is a RAD for Freepascal which is very easy to use, as GUI-API it uses the own LCL (which is a port of VCL of Delphi). IT can use variant Widgetsets, e.g. GTK, GTK2, QT, Win and some more. To get Lazarus on AROS first must port a Amiga/AROS style widgetset to LCL.
This is what I'm doing at the moment:
Already Working:
Application(TApplication), Window(TForm), Button(TButton), String(TEdit), Cycle(TComboBox), FloatText/ListView(TListView), CheckMark(TCheckBox), TestEditor(TMemo), Text(StaticText)

As an Example:
Lazarus on Ubuntu for Development to create an AROS program

@ALB42
Woah! This is epic! Thank you so much ALB42, this is the best new development in AROS this year IMO.

Thanks, it looks good.

I would like to see more of this soon. It looks promising. Thank you for your efforts!

i was born with pascal and it'd be fantastic...

Thanks all for your encouraging Comments

Of Course, from time to time I will report here about the Progress. Or you can directly read in my Blog ( blog.alb42.de ).

Hi ALB42,

a nice reading on your blog blog.alb42.de about the implementation of menu events and a start for dialogs. I am curious: What is the filesize of the compiled simple fpc-apps?

Quote:

I would split this question in 2 parts

simple FPC programs like hello world (250k) or just open a window with a button, using directly the MUI/Gadtools functions (550k).

completely different for LCL programs, since the complete backend of LCL is linked into the first size is 11 Mb of a simple window, can be stripped down to somewhat 4 Mb.. could be even less, but i can not strip all symbols from the file (strip --strip-all then its 2 MB, but not working anymore, "too less memory"(?), not a FPC problem also my gcc compiled programs, when strip --strip-all does not work anymore)

for size in LCL please read
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Size_Matters

and remember the compiler and LCL for AROS is for sure not optimized until now

The library auto-open information is stored in such a way that it doesn't work if you strip it completely. That's just a difference between AmigaOS and AROS.

hmm should be possible to make a list of this symbols? then could leave them with strip --keep-symbol=xyz