On 2017-03-08 18:35, Lars via Lazarus wrote: > When I finally get around to installing freebsd, if I can remember.
JWM runs on any X11 system... Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris etc. But yes, FreeBSD is a brilliant choice. I much prefer it over Linux too. > What do you do when you need to run a Windows lazarus program? WINE, just like under Linux. Or you can run VirtualBox with a Windows guest. This is how I test on various Windows and Linux platforms. I don't know how any developer can not run some or other VM in this day and age. If you speak to Delphi developers, most of them run Delphi in a Windows VM, using a Apple computer. VM's also give you a lot of piece-of-mind. If your real hardware fails, move the VM to any other system and continue where you left off - hardly any down time. I regularly make backup copies or take snapshots of my VM's too. Snapshots are very handy for experimentation. Speaking of emulators, FreeBSD also includes a Linux Emulator (an actual CentOS 6.6 install I believe), so you can run FreeBSD, Windows and Linux applications without firing up a VM. Pretty neat! > I'm not sure what the emulators/virtualbox's are > available for bsd. VirtualBox, Xen, Bhyve, FreeBSD Jail, QEMU etc... VMWare doesn't support FreeBSD. I've been using VirtualBox for about 7 years now (headless and GUI) and it works brilliantly! Bhyve is actually part of the base FreeBSD system now, so it's built into the operating system. As for developing cross-platform applications, even if Windows is your largest seller, if LCL did it's job correctly, you should be able to develop under any platform, then simply cross-compile (or compile natively in a VM) and things should work everywhere the same. In the real world LCL is unfortunately not there yet, but close. Pure fpGUI Toolkit applications have had that ability for 7+ years now. With fpGUI I only develop personal and commercial applications under FreeBSD, then at release time I compile binaries for other platforms and test (obviously). Since 7+ years I've never had incompatibilities across platforms - my applications work everywhere identical. I guess this is just one of the many benefits of 100% custom written toolkits. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org http://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
