On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Rainer Hantsch wrote:
> Hi! > > I want to ask if it is possible to run the latest 1-2 versions of FPC on > really old Linux systems like SuSE 5.2 (2.0.33 kernel) and/or if there is a > way to get this working. > Currently I stuck with FPC 1.0.4, because I am unable to use newer versions on > old SuSE's. So I would even have to do everything twice, or stay on these old > version. All FPC versions should run on all linux versions - unless you start linking to C libraries, in which case you *may* have problems. The oldest version I have FPC running on is SuSE 6.1. > > > Another question belongs to GUI programming (Linux, too!). > A lot of things are/have_been done to make FPC working in some manner with > GTK+, but it is extremely complicated in usage, so I currently prefer either > to use Kylix (when GUI is a *must*) or I write ncurses apps in FPC (I love > small and fast apps, so this is my favorite). > Is there something which makes life easier with GUI? - But again, this must > also work on old SuSE 5.2, so this is a sub-point to the above question. Use lazarus. http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/ Works faster than kylix and is 100% FPC. It works _very_ well on linux. (and soon on Win32, it seems) And it uses GTK in the background :-) BUT: It needs the latest FPC and C apps - so you may experience problems when linking. This is unavoidable - you'll have to bite through it. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
