Kylix in FreeBSD

[W. D.]

Does this mean that one could possibly develop some GUI programs
on Linux, them compile them to run on FreeBSD?  Or, can one only
compile command line apps?

At 11:51 10/31/2003, Michael Edenfield, wrote:
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>* jasaorp <jasaorp at yahoo.com.br> [031031 04:59]:
>> Somebody uses Kylix in FreeBSD?
>> What is the performance?
>
>The IDE doesn't run under FreeBSD.  I worked on it a bit over this
>summer when the most recent Kylix came out, and it appears to rely on
>too many Linux-isms.
>
>The command-line tools work just fine, and produce binaries that are on
>par with the ones you get from Linux.  If I remember from my testing,
>the compiler produces Linux-style ELF binaries.
>
>Getting the Kylix IDE to function on FreeBSD has been one of the ongoing
>hair-pulling tasks I undertake every few months.  The installer alone is
>a pain in the ass, since it performs "compatibility checks" in such
>Linux-centric ways as hard-coding /bin/bash into the shell scripts, and
>searching for shared libraries by name from hard-coded paths.  (GTK
>especially gives the installer fits because FreeBSD's gtk library has a
>-x11 at the end of the name.)  But once you work around those issues
>with some creative symlinking and script editing, the console tools
>install fairly painlessly.
>
>--Mike
>
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