| I'll see if MCK works with FPC 2.0.0.. if so, people could build applications
in
| Delphi but compile in freepascal/lazarus. That would just be evil and nasty.
Well I tried it. MCK works first try on one of my projects I built with Delphi
over a
year ago. Therefore, I'm happy to announce that you can <BIG FONT> create
applications
in the Delphi IDE visually, and then compile them with FPC!</BIG FONT> using
KOL/MCK.
I'll upload a flash video of my PC and show you what I mean - when I get a
chance
(.swf format).
So basically using MCK/KOL one can
- visually create applications with Delphi
- open lazarus or any other IDE, compile the application that you built with
Delphi
- or compile the application with some other IDE, or command line FPC
- someone may build a plug in for the Delphi IDE to compile the application
with FPC
directly from Delphi IDE
- have an exe application who is only 50KB in size or so!!
All I had to do was open an old MCK application I built a few months ago and
add the
following lines to the code in each KOL/MCK source file:
{$MODE Delphi}
{$DEFINE KOL_MCK
What does this mean for us as FPC developers?
For Windows development, MCK/KOL applications can be created visually by RAD.
Exe size
is 40KB for a simple application. Lazarus is 1MB currently. People can use
KOL/MCK for
visual RAD on small-medium projects until lazarus is more mature with regards
to exe
size.
This is very big news.. because all my KOL/MCK applications right now will
compile
inside Lazarus with no modifications..and they were all built in Delphi
months/years
ago.
I will have to check to see if all the MCK components will compile though..
hopefully
things like KOL synedit and KOL synapse may even compile.
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