Couple Questions Folks
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1: Does Lazarus Work well in Win32 yet?

2: Is it difficult to make a GUI that compiles for Linux and Win32 with Lazarus?

3: To Do it do you need to compile the actual FPC Compiler with Lazarus extensions or is it just Units you add to your code?

3: If Lazarus is Win32 Capable, is Graeme's Widget Set work on Win32 also?

Thank You in advance.

I've tried Lazarus in the past, and didn't have much success. And frankly it seemed Linux Specific. I know there were developers porting it, but I never saw a working Win32 Demo.

Bottom line is that I've been watching/waiting for Lazarus to Mature to the point to where you just download something, and can make a hello world dialog window in both Win32 and Linux and maybe toss some widgets on that dialog (Text Box, Combo Box, List, tree View, scroll bars, a data grid like MSFlexGrid, Labels, buttons, checkboxes, and maybe picture box or something).

4: Has Lazarus progressed to this level yet?

Forgive my ignorance here, I have spent time trying to find out, and download stuff - but my efforts have been futile. Additionally, if it doesn't work on windows I get gun shy. Not because I'm a windows fan - I love Linux - but I TRY to write applications that compile on both.

Thank you in Advance.

Jason P Sage

I've tried Lazarus in the past, and didn't have much success. And frankly it seemed Linux Specific. I know there were developers porting it, but I never saw a working Win32 Demo.

Hello Jason, I wonder... where have you been lately? :D Of course Lazarus works great both on win32 and linux, and some other platforms as well. Yes, we must admit that still there are bugs here and there but they're (mostly) not a very critical bugs. I think Lazarus is "good enough" to build serious applications. Some people had built some good applications using it.

If you demand a very complicated and complex component on Lazarus as we used to see on Delphi, maybe it's not happen yet. But, almost every (standard) common control that is required to build a working application are already there. Of course, it's not impossible to build your own complex and complicated components.

Forgive my ignorance here, I have spent time trying to find out, and download stuff - but my efforts have been futile. Additionally, if it doesn't work on windows I get gun shy. Not because I'm a windows fan - I love Linux - but I TRY to write applications that compile on both.

Have you tried the latest Lazarus? It's v.0.9.16 beta, if I'm not mistaken. I've been using it for a while, both on win32 (XP SP 2) and linux (SuSE 10.1). FYI... just to give you an example, I'm currently working on Database Modeller similar to FabForce's DBDesigner
(http://www.fabforce.net/dbdesigner4) using Lazarus. Some basic features have been done and it works nicely on win32 and linux.

Please visit the Lazarus' wiki to get more up-to-date informations. HTH. :)

-Bee-

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Jason P Sage wrote

Couple Questions Folks ---------------------- 1: Does Lazarus Work well in Win32 yet?

Of course.

2: Is it difficult to make a GUI that compiles for Linux and Win32 with Lazarus?

No. I do it often.

3: To Do it do you need to compile the actual FPC Compiler with Lazarus extensions or is it just Units you add to your code?

You just add units.

3: If Lazarus is Win32 Capable, is Graeme's Widget Set work on Win32 also?

They have nothing to do with each other, although in time, Lazarus could in theory be made to work with Graeme's widget set. Personally, I think that is pushing it a bit, but then, many things are :-)

I work often in it on Win32.

Yes, definitely.

It should not be a problem to do this. I write articles for a German magazine, and I compiled sophisticated database applications on Windows and Linux, no code changes needed.

Michael.

1: Does Lazarus Work well in Win32 yet?

Yes! For the most apps it works great. We develop using Lazarus on Windows and Linux. We did pickup some slight functionality differences between the two platforms, but nothing to major. Then again our app is not quite a standard looking app either.

2: Is it difficult to make a GUI that compiles for Linux and Win32 with Lazarus?

recompile the same app under each platform.

3: To Do it do you need to compile the actual FPC Compiler with Lazarus extensions or is it just Units you add to your code?

You only need to add the units you require.

3: If Lazarus is Win32 Capable, is Graeme's Widget Set work on Win32 also?

As Michael said. They have nothing to do with each other. I use Lazarus as my development IDE (editor), but that is where it ends. fpGUI does work under both Win32 and Linux though.

I've tried Lazarus in the past, and didn't have much success. And frankly it seemed Linux Specific. I know there were developers porting it, but I never saw a working Win32 Demo.

This must have been a long time ago. Lazarus works great under both platforms. I develop under Linux and my co-worker develops under Windows. Sometimes I have to admit, I think Lazarus looks better under Windows. Maybe that is due to my default GTK1 widget set style. (I hate the default look of Gtk1).

Bottom line is that I've been watching/waiting for Lazarus to Mature to the point to where you just download something, and can make a hello world

My client (Master Maths) have completely moved over to Free Pascal and Lazarus as a development platform for their flagship product. They used to use Delphi 7. FPC and Lazarus just gives them so much more flexibility.

4: Has Lazarus progressed to this level yet?

For sure!

Regards,
- Graeme -