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Date:      Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:42:20 -0500
From:      Michael Edenfield <kutulu@kutulu.org>
To:        "W. D." <WD@US-Webmasters.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Kylix in FreeBSD
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* W. D. <WD@US-Webmasters.com> [031031 15:18]:
> Hmmmm.  Which Linux would be most compatible?
>=20
> At 14:12 10/31/2003, Michael Edenfield wrote:
> >f7173a.jpg Re Kylix in FreeBSD1.ems<file://D:\Programs\Eudora\attach\Re =
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> >* W. D. <WD@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.

Borland "officially" supports RedHat, Mandrake, and SuSE.  The details
are at http://www.borland.com/kylix.  But anything with a recent glibc
version and GTK installed will work.

--Mike


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