On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Lukas Gradl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1.) Do I really need to buy a Mac? Or is there a good solution to emulate > one on an x86 Linux box? Just crosscompiling without the possibility to do > serious tests in house is not an option, as my app has to integrate in some > hardware-subsystems (printing, networking).
There are emulators out there, but they are horrible. I tryed PearPC which is a free software one, and Free Pascal didn't work there. Not to mention that it does not connect the CD-ROM driver and network didn't work, so my emulated software was a black box without any communication with the outter world except some hacks to mount the HD image file. My advice would be: Yes, buy a Mac. If you are out of money, you can buy an used one. Don't buy a too old thougth, because I think it's besser to have an Intel Mac, because this is the new architecture, and FPC cannot cross-compile yet from PPC to x86, but can do the other way around. If you intend to use Lazarus you need Mac OS X 10.4 or superior as far as I remember. I have had very good success in the opposite direction for emulation. I bougth Parallels Desktops and it emulates Windows wonderfully, with mouse integration, reads cdrom, networking works, even managed to get images from my phone! It also emulates Linux reasonably well, but not as good. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho _______________________________________________ fpc-other maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-other
