Guess my reply would have to be that: I have a full replacement for the Delphi IDE that I have already written, its based on the Jedi VCL and Extension Lib. Thou I will be taking a look at Lazarus and seeing how it was done. My current IDE works for PHP4Windows (My own creation that will go public some day), Delphi, C++, and a few internal languages. So adding support won't be the problem it will be getting all of the controls currently supported to cross compile that will be the pain since FP doesn't have an equilivent of BPL's that I can find.

Jeremy

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Guess my reply would have to be that: I have a full replacement for the Delphi IDE that I have already written, its based on the Jedi VCL and Extension Lib.

So what you have is more something like bloodshed (an IDE written in Delphi that can connect to other commandline compilers, via DLL or external execution)?

IOW, you don't want to recompile the IDE itself with FPC?

Thou I will be taking a look at Lazarus and seeing how it was done. My current IDE works for PHP4Windows (My own creation that will go public some day), Delphi, C++, and a few internal languages.

What C++ ? Only bc++, or also e.g. gcc ? If you can do GCC, a lot of that support will be reusable for FPC.

So adding support won't be the problem it will be getting all of the controls currently supported to cross compile that will be the pain since FP doesn't have an equilivent of BPL's that I can find.

If they depend on Jedi VCL, it will be hard, since that depends on the Borland VCL deeper down?

And FPC indeed doesn't have packages yet.

The current IDE is designed with my current job in mind. It only supports what it has to support :) as some of the languages require custom crap to be added in (IE: We use 2 versions of C here, an old Dos Based MS version and BC++ last dos based version). So these 2 don't have visual components, when you open/create a projcet it hides the visual designer.

The Jedi VCL could be ported under its license pretty easily, it even has a nice replacement for the RTTI library (JediRTTI.pas) that does things like replace the AS and IS operators under the hood. It's components (while deriving from Delphi's) are not tightly coded to Delphi's libraries.

In the end I hope that Lazarus will do it and I wouldn't have to take this any further.

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