On 29-9-2012 20:37, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Reinier Olislagers wrote: >> On 29-9-2012 17:17, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: >>> Historically, I've used ODBC on Win-32 and sometimes on unix. The >>> libpq.dll the comes with the ODBC drivers looks as though it's been >>> compiled with gcc running natively, and there are minimal dependencies. >>> So it's definitely worth "shopping around", /particularly/ if the >>> alternative is to use MS runtimes in a VM on top of Linux. >> >> I may be missing something here, but what does the fact that Windows may >> be running in a VM have to do with which compiler/runtime is used? >> If anything, the Microsoft runtime is more likely to be installed on >> Windows in any case... >> >> If you're talking about running Windows Lazarus programs that use >> libpq.dll etc under Wine, that could be a different story... > > I wasn't thinking of the technical side, but rather of the time that MS > leaned heavily on somebody who was about to demonstrate using FoxPro > runtimes in an early VM on Linux to implement a multiuser database (they > sent at least one lawyer to the usergroup meeting). Now I accept that > it's probably difficult for MS to start dictating the terms under which > msvcrt may be used, but I can't help but feel that it's something which > is best avoided when alternatives exist.
I understand but I think you're talking about wine, which is not a VM (as least as the term is commonly known - of course it is virtual in the sense that Windows programs think they run on Windows while running on *nix). I'll shut up now. Thanks, Reinier -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
