Hi all,

I am just curious if it is possible to compile FreePascal under cygwin environment. Reason.... since Lazarus is heavily developed using Linux (and only usable under this OS), I want to use it while using Windows.

Regards,

Yoyong

You can compile FreePascal under cygwin. Not all Makefiles work correct because cygwin tools will add /cygdrive/<driveletter> instead of <driveletter>: before paths and fpc tools and other delivered tools like ginstall.exe don't support this. Also specifying directories like /home/user is not possible because fpc uses direct WinAPI calls that don't know that /home/user is c:\cygwin\home\user. So for real cygwin there needs to be a new port of the compiler. This port needs to be based on POSIX libc for the RTL and the Win32 target in the compiler.

Hi,

I am just curious if it is possible to compile FreePascal under cygwin environment. Reason.... since Lazarus is heavily developed using Linux (and only usable under this OS), I want to use it while using Windows.

Even it could be compiled under cygwin environment, I don't think it would help you much. The main problem with lazarus under Windows is the widget interface. Under linux gtk is mainly used, but gtk under Windows is just not compatible enough. That is why there is some work being done on a native win32 widget set interface, but that is not as mature as the gtk interface.

Regards,
Vincent Snijders.

Regards, Yoyong