Hello List,

I've been evangelisting FPC and Lazarus for a lot of time now, and today on the biggest annual open source event over here ( http://august.penguin.org.il/) I was approached by a person that wish to convert C# application to Lazarus, but he can not find any tools that can help him do so (finally people try it instead of saying "it's pascal, i'm not interested").
It's a commercial application at the company he is working at.

So my question is, is there a known tool or an easy way to do it ?

Thanks,
Ido

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Automatic conversion won't work, I fear, due to substancial differences of the object models in CLR and FCL/LCL (garbage collection...), not to mention the very different LCL itself.

A conversion to Delphi.Prism looks feasable to me, because it only requires syntactical changes to the source code. But FPC/Lazarus do not support a .NET target.

DoDi

2011/8/12 ik :

So my question is, is there a known tool or an easy way to do it ?

Yeah, employ a lot of skilled developers. ;-)

On a serious note:
Hans-Peter hit the nail on the head. The underlaying languages, frameworks and due to GC in .NET makes this near impossible. The only sane way to guarantee a working app in the end, would be a rewrite.

I had to do the exact same thing in my current job. We rewrote a few VB6 apps to FPC+LCL, then later to fpGUI. For obvious reasons the latter was not nearly as much work as the first.

Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote

But FPC/Lazarus do not support a .NET target.

IMHO it would be great if some day Lazarus/FPC would support compiling Prism projects to native non .Net code.

But I suppose this will be a dream for a long time ;) .

-Michael