Am 13.05.2015 11:11 schrieb "Michael Schnell" <[email protected]>: >> And for the widgetsets: The VCL was never designed to be cross platform in contrast to te LCL. It would have meant immensely more work for Embarcadero to port the VCL to Mac, Android, etc. than to buy a third part solution and to market that. Of course they could have used the CLX, but there they would have first needed to port it to a more modern Qt version. >> > The Lazarus team (similar as the fpc team) took on with this effort and did an excellent (but tedious and still unfinished) job. > > This proves that it is possible, but Embarcadero just bought the Firemonkey library instead.
Again the LCL was implemented from the ground up to be platform independant. The VCL was not. That is a huge difference in effort necessary to port it. Is it possible? Yes. Is it feasible? Hell, no. Regards, Sven
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