Hi, On Thu, 23 Mar 2017, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > > When did FPC start to run on Linux? 1999? > > > > I got the first "hello world" around 1995-1996, I think, > > together with Mark May. (if memory serves well) > > Well, Delphi didn't start with a "Hello World". So that would be a > little unfair as comparison. What about the time when FPC was able to > compile itself? Well, there was Kylix anyway around 2001 or so, wasn't it? So not like supporting Linux is a rocket science, although FPC was definitely first. My remark was more about, I still remember, Kylix had his own LibC unit, but because of (un)portability reasons, FPC never supported that anywhere but on i386. And that was already a source of massive whining, when people started to use x86_64 and other platforms, and they tried to compile their i386-only Kylix code elsewhere with FPC, and of course FPC was stupid and ugly for not supporting the LibC unit elsewhere. So if this Delphi for Linux sticks around for a while, I predict the same happening all over again (just with feature X)... And I "pray" to be wrong on this. Charlie _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
