Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:14:30 +0000 From: Rod Person <personrp@hotpop.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: John <john@starfire.mn.org> Subject: Re: Kylix or libborqt Message-ID: <200503181114.31863.personrp@hotpop.com> In-Reply-To: <20050317094058.B67554@starfire.mn.org> References: <20050317094058.B67554@starfire.mn.org>
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On Thursday 17 March 2005 3:40 pm, John wrote: > Hey, folks! > My problem is that, of course, it is only compiled for MS-Windows > and Linux. That's OK, I have Linux compatibility installed so that > I can run acroread. What makes matters worse is that it was built > using something called Kylix by Borland (http://www.borland.com/kylix/). > As such, it depends on a library called libborqt-6.9-qt2.3.so. > > I'm pretty much a newbie to Linux applications on FreeBSD. I got > acroread running because the packages did everything for me. So... > 1) Do I need a Linux libborqt-6.9-qt2.3.so, or a FreeBSD one? > 2) Should I forget trying to run the darn thing in Linux mode > and try to port it to FreeBSD, since it is open source? > The biggest problem with porting it would probably be Kylix > itself, which, while GPL, I haven't found the source. It must > be quit extensive, because the download is 90.7 Mb and includes > two high-performance C++ compilers. The Windows version came with > whatever DLLs it needed, so I suspect you don't really have to > go THAT far. > Kylix is a Borland IDE that is basically Delphi (Object Pascal) for Linux,= =20 although the last version did include C++. As far as I know the Kylix proje= ct=20 died at borland. I use Delphi at work so I was psyched when Kylix came alon= g. BUT....kylix never ran on FreeBSD, people tried for sometime but I don't th= ink=20 anyone ever got it beyond installing. As for that lib if its not a lib=20 supplied by kylix then just grab the lib and install it, but with the "qt" = in=20 the name I suspect that its some borland modified qt based lib. As for data modeling I have to think there are some out there but I don't=20 use any so someone else will have to tell you. HTH... =2D-=20 Rod ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "If you stay the same long enough you'll be in=20 style some day again." =A0Cren Dog=20 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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