[fpc-pascal] development with mac os / cross platform

Adriaan van Os fpc at microbizz.nl
Thu Jan 27 11:49:46 CET 2005


Jonas Maebe wrote:

>> i would also like to know if anybody succesful develops cross
>> platform gui applications for windows and linux (and maybe osx).
>> are there any interesting articles/hints i can find somewhere in
>> the web?
>
> That is harder. Two possibilities are WxWindows (also works under Mac  
> OS X, but I don't know about Pascal bindings) and gtk (only works  
> under X11 under Mac OS X), but I doubt you will be able to write one  
> interface which looks native for all platforms, regardless of which  
> toolkit you use.

Gtk also runs natively on Mac OS X, see
<http://gtk-osx.sourceforge.net/> in beta stage
<http://gtk-quartz.sourceforge.net/> under development
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Porting/Conceptual/ 
PortingUnix/unix_environments/chapter_7_section_6.html> overview

And what about Lazarus ?

Regards,

Adriaan van Os





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