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Is there anyway a compielr could be made for windows pocket pc's at all? I think it would be very cool and amazingly usefull, and it would boost purebasic's popularity. They only thing is, is it really possible, i dont nkow much about pocket pc's, but i think they might be too different for purebasic...

Not exactly what you are asking, but you "should" be able to use the Amiga version of PB to create games that would run on an Amiga emulator on Pocket PCs.

There already exists Purebasic (.net) programs for PocketPCs. (e.g. http://www.deeem2031.de/PB.Net/PureFansWebServer.zip (needs the .Net Compact Framework 2.0+))
Unfortunatly you have to wait until PB.Net is released till u can try out by yourself

Where can we some informations about PB.net ?

> Amiga emulator on Pocket PCs

Which emulator is this? I tried one which was a load of bollocks; can't recall
it's name right now but I wonder if it's the same one? Only did like 1 FPS or
something, making it totally useless (as expected). A PocketPC is too weak
to emulate the mighty Amiga.

Progi1984 wrote:Where can we some informations about PB.net ?

There is no site about PB.Net but if you have questions you can ask me in the Purebasic IRC Channel on freenode.org.

This may help speed up the dev. of PureBasic on PocketPC:

http://arm.flatassembler.net/

B4 anyone flames me I know that the compiler would have to generate Arm instructions, but at least part of the work has been done?

Deem: Could you give us an idea when PB .NET is gonna be released (are we talking about months or years? )
Is PB .NET gonna support Mono?

PellesC can compile to pocket PC with the right libs and considering PB uses PellesC sub systems, it possibly wouldn't be to much of a mammoth effort to create a compiler target for Arm and CE

..considering PB uses PellesC sub systems..

Not sure about the compiler though. The libraries are c now although iirc PellesC was dropped in favor of MS VC.

come to think of it, I did hear something about MS VC too maybe in the blog

It would be very cool it we could write Pocket PC apps in PB though I expect its in the hard basket at the moment.

The problem isn't the lib (VC++ has an ARM backend) but the compiler itself (it needs a brand new code generation plugin). And no, it's not trivial. BTW, we never used PellesC, but Lcc.

I wouldn't expect it to be trivial at all.

Though I'd happily step up to the plate and offer my services to aid and assist but unfortunately, it'd be a bit like having Gaston le Gaffe on board.

Just as an FYI Microsoft offers free C++ compilers for embedded CE/HPC/PSPC/PPC platforms as well as Standard/Platform-specific SDKs.

Google Embedded Visual C++ 4.