Subject: Re: Borland's Kylix on NetBSD?
To: ncrnko@jps.net <ncrnko@jps.net>
From: Olaf Seibert <rhialto@polderland.nl>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/14/2001 18:21:23
On Mon 12 Feb 2001 at 10:46:40 -0800, ncrnko@jps.net wrote:
> >> 
> >> wojtek@wojtek.from.pl wrote:
> >> > BTW. kylix=wine+delphi. at least in linux
> >> You mean that the IDE requires wine?  I thought it was a native
> >YES!!!!
> >> says they are "native applications".
> >it is "native commercial shit".
> 
> According to FAQs http://www.inprise.com/kylix/faqs.html :
> 
> Are Kylix applications dependent on Wine?
> No. Kylix developed applications do not use Wine, WineLib or any Win32 
>     APIs and do not have any Wine dependencies. Kylix applications are
>     100% pure Linux ELF object format executables and use the new Borland
>     CLX native cross platform component library. 

Note that this is not the same. The IDE can depend on wine while the
applications that it creates do not.

-Olaf.
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