[fpc-pascal] Cross platform question about lpi file content

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 30 Sep 2020, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote:

> Lazarus is not Delphi. In Delphi this worked, because on Windows the GUI 
> libraries are always available and Windows doesn't care if you use UI 
> code in a "console" binary. On other systems (especially Linux and BSD) 
> this might not be the case however, thus linking against e.g. GTK or Qt 
> (which the LCL does depending on the widgetset) would just lead to 
> "library not found" errors at the point you'd start the application. And 
> trust me, on a headless system you don't *want* to install a complete 
> X11 or Wayland stack just to get your program working. That is why the 
> NOGUI widgetset was introduced. To give units that require GUI access 
> (like some parts of Indy) the chance to work in CLI applications. Though 
> of course it's even better to get rid of such dependencies, but Indy is 
> big and thus one probably needs to adjust/rewrite quite some of their 
> units to make sure that there are no unnecessary GUI dependencies...

I think this rewrite of Indy has already happened quite some time ago:
Indy works without GUI in Delphi as well. I use it in server applications on
headless servers.

Michael.