Delphi running in Wine/WineX, etc

[WILL]

I'm not sure if this fits in here or not, but it seems more appropriate in a Linux topic than a general topic thread.

Has anyone tried installing and running Delphi in wine/winex under linux? If there is a better alternative then please can someone let me know. Next year I plan on fully migrating my laptop to Linux(Suse 9).

So far I have run into only this article with Google. It clearly states a problem with Delphi 7, but nothing of Delphi 5 or anything about what comes with Suse 9. It is discussing Suse 8.2 in case you don't catch it first thing.

Any and all help appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[Useless Hacker]

What's wrong with using Kylix?

[WILL]

Nothing wrong with using Kylix, unless you have already made a Windows game with DirectX support. A bit easier to develop cross platform apps/games when you have both Linux and Windows to compile for too.

[lucky]

Just attempt it!

Heh

luck

[noeska]

if you want to go cross-platform it is best to avoid directx and go for opengl and openal and sdl. Then you can make your program for windows, linux and even mac-osx. All using the object pascal language.

Linux with kylix
Windows with delphi
Mac-osx with gnu-pascal

[WILL]

Well that is my goal. I plan on switching to all the cross-platform libraries out there. But what I want to do is be able to compile Windows binaries in my Linux enviroment. Making a dual-boot system(Linux on one parition, well 2, and Windows on the other) will take up way too much space on my 18 Gig laptop drive. And I hear that making a shell is not more friendly on space.

However with Wine this offers me a solution without having a second system to install all of the Windows crap on(which is not an option, please don't suggest it).

I just want to know, who as tried this and does it work

I am currently running Windows XP and do not have the resources to backup all of my things to do a fresh install. When I go back home(back to Toronto), I can save all my files on a file server in my network, but I'd like to find out now so I can decide what things I can and cannot do.

[Useless Hacker]

FreePascal can cross-compile (that is, compile code on one platform for a different platform).

[WILL]

Hmm... well that is interesting. Maybe useful. If I had a Delphi/Kylix made program with GUI, could I compile that with Free Pascal? I doubt it, but who knows.