Kylix in FreeBSD

W. D. WD at US-Webmasters.com
Fri Oct 31 12:19:37 PST 2003


Hmmmm.  Which Linux would be most compatible?

At 14:12 10/31/2003, Michael Edenfield wrote:
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>* W. D. <WD at US-Webmasters.com> [031031 14:45]:
>> 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?
>
>This should, in theory, be possible.  Kylix links against Qt and some
>additional CLX runtime libraries, which are covered under a
>dual-lisenced: if you pay for Kylix you get a commercial lisence for Qt
>and CLX, if you use the Open Kylix version you get GPL'd copies of the
>license.  As far as I can tell, the problem with Kylix on FreeBSD is the
>IDE itself, using customized WINE-like libraries internally, and has
>nothing to do with the output of the compiler/linker.
>
>It does sortof assume you have glibc, but I don't think there are any
>issues with Kylix that don't exists with Linux-built gcc/gld binaries.
>
>--Mike
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