Lazarus on Raspberry Pi

Lazarus on Raspbian Wheezy

The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card-sized single-board computer. It has been developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of stimulating the teaching of basic computer science in schools. Raspberry Pis are also used for multiple other purposes that are as different as media servers, robotics and control engineering.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation recommends Raspbian Wheezy as standard operating system. However, alternative systems including RISC OS and various Linux distributions, even Android, may be used.

Simple installation under Raspbian

In the Raspbian operating system it is easy to install Lazarus and Free Pascal. In order to do this simply open a terminal window and type:

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get upgrade
  sudo apt-get install fpc
  sudo apt-get install lazarus

This installs a precompiled version of Lazarus on the Raspberry Pi. Of course, a network connection is required. Installation may take about 30 minutes, but major portions of this process take place automatically. After installation you may instantly start Lazarus via the LXDE development menu.

Compiling from sources

You may want to compile Lazarus from subversion sources. See Michell Computing: Lazarus on the Raspberry Pi for details.

External Links

• Raspberry Pi Foundation
• Raspberry Pi Spy: Raspberry Pi tutorials, scripts, help and downloads
• Lazarus wrapper unit for Gordon Henderson's wiringPi C library
• Additional information on Lazarus and Raspberry Pi at eLinux.org