This means that it is open source, free, whatever name you want to stick to it.
The code for the Free Pascal compiler is licensed under the GPL. This hasn't been added to the LCL yet but it should be possible in the future.Ĭan I create commercial products with this? However, if you are only looking to create a Windows product using Free Pascal and Lazarus then the answer would be yes. These items are specific to Windows and would only work on and within Windows. If it uses some specific database, OCX, or DCU then the answer would be no. If the code is standard Delphi pascal and it uses the standard components found in Delphi then the answer is yes. Of the project are still in need of help.
Is it totally completed? No not yet.The over all IDE is complete and can be used for most programming needs. As soon as Lazarus reaches a 1.0 release developers will be able to start to create the interface unit to tie the LCL (Lazarus Component Libraries) to other widget sets. You've now just created a Linux version of the Windows product without any additional coding.Īt this point in the development we are using Win32, gtk+, Carbon and QT as our API widget set. So you copy the code over to your Linux development machine, compile, and link against the gtk+ interface unit. First you decide what widget set you want to use. Let's say you are creating a product on Windows using the standard Windows widgets. If it isn't available, well you can write it.įor example. If you want to use GTK+, great! If you want it to be Gnome compliant, great! As long as the interface code for the widget set you want to use is available you can link to it. Once you write your code you just link it against the API widget set of your choice. Lazarus is being developed to be totally and completely API independent.
Yeah, but what about the GUI? What widget set are you using? Since the exact same compiler is available on all of the above platforms it means you don't need to do any recoding to produce identical products for different platforms. Unlike Java which strives to be a write once run anywhere, Lazarus and Free Pascal strives for write once compile anywhere. Lazarus is the part of the missing puzzle that will allow you to develop Delphi like programs in all of the above platforms. Free Pascal is designed to be able to understand and compile Delphi syntax, which is of course OOP. Free Pascal is a GPL'ed compiler that runs on Linux, Win32, OS/2, 68K and more. Lazarus is the class libraries for Free Pascal that emulate Delphi.
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