Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 11:00:43 +0100 (CET) From: marcov@stack.nl (Marco van de Voort) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kylix in FreeBSD Message-ID: <20031107100043.9651F89@toad.stack.nl>
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Hmm, and to the list :) > Rod Person + Terry Lamber wrote: > > On Thursday 06 November 2003 09:09 am, It was written: > > > If you futs with getting Kylix to run under FreeBSD, don't forget the > > > special glibc requirements that some versions of Kylix have. Maybe you > > > should probably simply replace the entire /compat userland with the > > > userland of a distro that Kylix supprorts _with_ kylix extra patches > > > installed? RP: > > Have you tried this? No, I only needed the commandline compiler at the time. It is also only a suggestion for something to look into. I don't have Kylix anymore (it was my employers) > > Since Kylix came out I have tried to get it to run on FreeBSD and > > various Linux distros. A few days ago I got kylix to run on SuSE 8.2 > > (from the kylix newsgroups this seems to be the best distro for it). > > NetBSDs Linux emulation is based on SuSE, isn't it? But, I found no > > postings related to Kylix on NetBSD. My next wondering is would NetBSD > > Linux emu run under FreeBSD and would this run kylix? No idea. > Since all new developement in Kylix is apparently officially > stalled, now would be a good time to do the porting work, since > it's no longer a moving target... Not me, IMHO the fpc (+lazarus) port is more important atm. It generates much simpler apps, but it is native on every 4.x and 5.x with gtk12, and connects to the free dbs without much fuzz :-) Moreover it is not dead. Kylix is dead. Probably both because Borland got in bed with Microsoft because of .NET, and because it was no commercial success. Kylix is a bastard child compared to Delphi, but not _that_ bad, and being the only similar tool in the market should have made up for that. Productivity is apparantly not appreciated under Linux yet, or the demand for small/medium custom client-server apps on linux is still too low.
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