Well I could add then, I use slackware at home, mandrake on my office laptop, Lazarus installed perfectly on both, doing CVS downloads + make.

And I work transparently between them, I developed my first lazarus (and first RAD) app halfway on my home machine, copied the project directory and went right forward on the laptop.

I cannot vouch for binary compatibility of the app, but it certainly ported just fine.

It's a fairly complex program, a control panel for day-to-day system administration, e.g. adding/removing users changing passwords, making backups etc. Designed for people who have never used a computer before (most of our clients are like that), the previous version - CGI based one, had taken me about six months to do.
The lazarus one, with more features, less security problems (because I don't need to get root from web) all in less than a day. Of course I had the code to do the actual work, I just needed to code the GUI, and then extend it.

Long and the short, Lazarus worked beautifully, saved me a lot of time, and I think after all these years, maybe it's time to pack away VIM, at least when I am not doing shell programs.

Ciao
A.J.

http://gtksdl.sourceforge.net/
The library above looks pretty neat. Unfortunately when I tried to run it through h2pas, it confused that poor litle program no end. It created a header - where just about everything was so obviously wrong that I just gave up on using it.
Perhaps somebody with better C skills could create a header unit for us, and I will begin my attempts to be contributive by creating a lazarus component from the result. That is, unless the person who creates the header doesn't trust me :-)

I saw something remotely similiar for Delphi on a website once, but at the time I was not doing any RAD work whatsoever.

Ciao
A.J.

Just remove the cplusplus stuff from the header file and try again.

Well, one of the many distro's we have tested now includes Knoppix, a Debian incarnation that boots from the CD.

I've now sucessfully installed Knoppix with FPC and Lazarus without a single hitch. Unless you count the Alsa driver problem I'm having... but that's another story.

Not bad, considering Knoppix doesn't include Gnome. I expected to have more issues, at least some font problems.