Have you considered using Xvfb as minimal X-Server without visual
output ? I use this in combination with wine to run Windows
Service-Applications developed in Delphi (which haven't been ported to
fpc yet) on our linux server and it works fine.

On 23.08.2010 23:18, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
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>
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:
>
>> Hi, I'm planning to migrate a desktop app from Delphi to fcl-web, and
>> one important aspect of it, is the reporting engine. This app has many
>> reports created with FastReport 4, and I want to let the new app
>> generate PDFs on the fly.
>>
>> If this is not possible, what do you recommend to create PDF reports
>> from Lazarus/FPC?
>
> I researched this myself, but there is no clear answer.
>
> It certainly depends on the platform. Linux/Windows ? On Linux, the
> existing reporting engines rely on an X-server, which is not very good
> for a web application. (our servers have no X installed). For example,
> some people seem to have FastReport 4 running in FPC, so this is good,
> but requires X and is not suitable for a webserver.
>
>
> Michael.
>
>
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