Anybody Using Lazarus?

JonnyMac

I'm looking for guidance on creating a cross-platform application that uses serial coms. I know it's possible because... well... BST!

jmg

I use Lazarus, and when we looked some time ago Synaser was the best suggested library.
We've used it under Windows fine.

There is also this thread I find
https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?topic=38283.0
that mentions some new alternatives. Not used those.
I see the comment "Note TLazSerial is just a component wrapper for Synaser....(Synapse)"

pmrobert

I use Lazarus quite a bit. For serial and ethernet comms the package I've settled on is Synapse synapse.ararat.cz/doku.php; it works reliably and predictably under Linux and Win without drama.

Mike R...

evanh

I wouldn't say I use it nor even know the language but I did use synaser to port Chip's PX program to Linux before finding out PX.EXE works fine under Wine. Here's that little effort - http://forums.parallax.com/discussion/162989/lazarus-port-of-px

JonnyMac

I appreciate the feedback. I did finally manage to make a very small project that allows me to do what I want in a coming real-world project:

* Scan/Re-scan for available serial ports
* Select port from drop-down and connect to it
* Send simple data
* Receive data asynchronously

I've only run this in Window 10 though I am thinking about dropping into onto my RPi this week. The target for the test is a PAB with a simple program.

I did end up using the SynaSer library.