Anthony Walter wrote

What might be interesting is if the Delphi command line compiler could run on AMD64 Linux, but that's yet to be seen.

[I would assume your message is off-topic, so I set the reply-to of this message to FPC-Other]

I doubt it will actually run on Linux, because then they would also need a debugger, which then begs for an IDE to make debugging easier. So in all likelihood, you would need a copy (and license) of Windows to develop for Linux - just like you need for OSX/iOS development.

Just stick with FPC and have native tools for each platform. I see no benefit of having Delphi these days. Delphi is outshined by Free Pascal and Lazarus IDE for some years now.

Regards,
Graeme

In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:

Correct.

I doubt it will actually run on Linux, because then they would also need a debugger, which then begs for an IDE to make debugging easier. So in all likelihood, you would need a copy (and license) of Windows to develop for Linux - just like you need for OSX/iOS development.

Yes, it is a crosscompiler with their paserver remote debug solution.

Also afaik the compiler is the same as for mobile targets, with probably the same limitations, and not the win32/win64 delphi compiler.

Just stick with FPC and have native tools for each platform. I see no benefit of having Delphi these days. Delphi is outshined by Free Pascal and Lazarus IDE for some years now.

The debug experience under Delphi is still several times better than Lazarus. More expressions evaluate directly, and types are more easily browsed and inspectable (specially under D2010+ which has proper debug support for collection types)

Marco van de Voort wrote

Yes, it is a crosscompiler with their paserver remote debug solution.

Thanks for confirming.

Also afaik the compiler is the same as for mobile targets, with probably the same limitations, and not the win32/win64 delphi compiler.

:-/

The debug experience under Delphi is still several times better than Lazarus. More expressions evaluate directly, and types are more easily browsed and inspectable (specially under D2010+ which has proper debug support for collection types)

Sad but true. Maybe the Free Pascal Foundation or donors to the foundation will be willing to sponsor such development of a native FPC debugger at some point. I'll be keen to work on that.

Regards,
Graeme

In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:

Note that I heard this when it first came on the roadmap. I haven't seen any confirmation/repitition of that tidbit in the newer rounds of roadmap news (this summer) yet.