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FPC on older linuxes?

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Rainer Hantsch

Hi!

I want to ask if it is possible to run the latest 1-2 versions of FPC on really old Linux systems like SuSE 5.2 (2.0.33 kernel) and/or if there is a way to get this working.
Currently I stuck with FPC 1.0.4, because I am unable to use newer versions on old SuSE's. So I would even have to do everything twice, or stay on these old version.

Another question belongs to GUI programming (Linux, too!). A lot of things are/have_been done to make FPC working in some manner with GTK+, but it is extremely complicated in usage, so I currently prefer either to use Kylix (when GUI is a *must*) or I write ncurses apps in FPC (I love small and fast apps, so this is my favorite).
Is there something which makes life easier with GUI? - But again, this must also work on old SuSE 5.2, so this is a sub-point to the above question.

mfg

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Michael Van Canneyt
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Rainer Hantsch wrote 8 lines
Hi! I want to ask if it is possible to run the latest 1-2 versions of FPC on really old Linux systems like SuSE 5.2 (2.0.33 kernel) and/or if there is a way to get this working. Currently I stuck with FPC 1.0.4, because I am unable to use newer versions on old SuSE's. So I would even have to do everything twice, or stay on these old version.

All FPC versions should run on all linux versions - unless you start linking to C libraries, in which case you *may* have problems. The oldest version I have FPC running on is SuSE 6.1.

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Another question belongs to GUI programming (Linux, too!). A lot of things are/have_been done to make FPC working in some manner with GTK+, but it is extremely complicated in usage, so I currently prefer either to use Kylix (when GUI is a *must*) or I write ncurses apps in FPC (I love small and fast apps, so this is my favorite). Is there something which makes life easier with GUI? - But again, this must also work on old SuSE 5.2, so this is a sub-point to the above question.

Use lazarus.

http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/

Works faster than kylix and is 100% FPC. It works _very_ well on linux. (and soon on Win32, it seems)

And it uses GTK in the background :-)

BUT: It needs the latest FPC and C apps - so you may experience problems when linking. This is unavoidable - you'll have to bite through it.

Michael.