LAZARUS: So we can have TC/Linux & TC/OSX

[kwanbis]

Hello Ghisler.

I'm not sure how much work would be to port Total Commander to Lazarus, but, wouldn't it be great?

I mean, i love, and program, in Delphi, but i stoped updating Delphi after Delphi7, as latter versions include pure MS bulshit, and is not multiplatform, like lazarus, and Kylix is, very sadly, a dead product.

Have you even takan a look at it?

[Sir_SiLvA]

Please use the search - there will be no linux port from Chris.

Search for Wine and use TC with that under Linux.

[kwanbis]

Please use the search - there will be no linux port from Chris.

i haven't requested linux port per se, even iirc when Kylix appeared, it was being considered.

I'm asking for a lazarus port.

That in time could lead to other OSs ports.

[dkyriakis]

Any news/info regarding a Lazarus port?

Judging from the Sourceforge page too, it looks like Lazarus it's constantly improved (even now that borland ... ), and also it's used by many people (I think a constat ~1000 downloads dayly since years is allot )

Thank you.

[ghisler(Author)]

I haven't tried out Lazarus yet. How different is it from the Delphi VCL? I did try to port TC with Kylix, but although its library is very similar to the VCL, I had to rewrite a lot.

[dkyriakis]

I haven't tried out Lazarus yet. How different is it from the Delphi VCL? I did try to port TC with Kylix, but although its library is very similar to the VCL, I had to rewrite a lot.

There are some small differences, but they are trying constantly to increase compatibility.
In your case however, if you would try such a process, I think you should not "rewrite" like in case of Kylix but simply "delegate" - fill bug requests for those situations (or even let others fill them for you) .
You could also use your name to get higher priority for those issues .

I can't post links here yet, but there are some pages in the WIKI with comparisons and also many useful links to all sort of articles.
(I guess /Lazarus_Components is one of those wiki pages).
Well the wiki and links are huge cause there are many many users and applications using it.

Demetrios.

[6h0f4r]

how i get TC7 for linux?

[Millenod]

lazarus has an other interesting thing : it can compile 64 bit code

[dott]

You should check the DoubleCommander project, unlike kruzader, it will be a tc twin, with support for tc plugins, etc.

It's build with FreePascal/Lazarus, there are ports for windows and GNU/Linux(gtk, qt)

Note: so far is in alpha state

[ghisler(Author)]

Interesting, how will they support plugins? Via Wine, or just plugins recompiled for Linux?

[dott]

As far as I know plugins must be recompiled for linux.

There are some plugins already ported(or made) for linux:
WCX: cpio,deb,rpm,unbz2,unrar,zip(*.zip, *.gz, *.tar, *.tgz)
WDX: rpm, luascript
WLX: WlxMplayer
DSX(Search): DSXLocate

[poiuytr]

2dott
Thanks for pointing out such interesting project, I mean DoubleCommander.