On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Brad Campbell wrote: > Francois Gouget wrote: > > > > On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Frank Joerdens wrote: > > > > > Just a (probably crazy) thought: What about porting Windoze apps that > > > aren't written in C? I've got a Delphi application that currently runs > > > under Virtual PC under OS 9.2 on an eMac (PPC Processor), which would > > > run much faster without those OS layers in between. I don't really have > > > a clue as to whether this really far-out-whacky or not cuz I am not > > > really a Delphi, or, for that matter, C developer. I just have the > > > Delphi source code for the app in question and do know some Pascal > > > (learned it in school 20 yeas ago). > > > > Winelib is for C/C++ only. Adapting it to other languages would require > > a lot of work. However for Delphi applications there is a ready > > solution: Kylix! > > I have several Delphi programs I run using wine. > I note that your running on PPC, which native wine, nor Kylix is going > to help you with. > Check out Lazarus. I believe the fpc 1.1 compiler will target PPC. > But then you need to run Linux on your PPC, not MacOS. > > You could port the program using Lazarus, run Linux on PPC and run OS9.2 > under MOL. > > If you think wine is alpha software, wait till you look at Lazarus :p) Maybe it would be possible to combine fpc with winelib, to compile the real Delphi framework and then Delphi apps? _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
