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Lazarus and Delphi

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Florian Klaempfl
to Andreas Berger: I recently stumbled on Lazarus and found it very interresting. I use Delphi and Builder…
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Hi, I recently stumbled on Lazarus and found it very interresting. I use Delphi and Builder in Windows and BC 3.1 in DOS. I stopped using BP7 since it gives me problems with DOS 7.x - I get a divide by 0 error when the program starts running.

This isn't a problem of DOS 7.x, it is a very well known problem of TP/BP with fast CPUs.
There are a lot of patches available though I don't know a link by heart, just have a look at the c.l.p.m FAQ.

The reason for this mail is to ask the following: Can I use Lazarus with Delphi instead of FreePascal? I have nothing against FreePascal, but it would help me evaluate FreePascal performance before switching comercial products.

Hmmm, without any comments about Delphi's quality/stability, I would say the following: currently the lcl/lazarus is the weakest link in the chain fpc/lcl/Lazarus. lcl/Lazarus is still under heavy development.

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Andreas Berger

Hi,

I recently stumbled on Lazarus and found it very interresting. I use Delphi and Builder in Windows and BC 3.1 in DOS. I stopped using BP7 since it gives me problems with DOS 7.x - I get a divide by 0 error when the program starts running.

The reason for this mail is to ask the following: Can I use Lazarus with Delphi instead of FreePascal? I have nothing against FreePascal, but it would help me evaluate FreePascal performance before switching comercial products.

Another question: Can Lazarus be used by other compilers? I'm thinking specifically of the free BCB 5.5 command line compiler.

Best regards,

Andreas Berger

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