[fpc-pascal] Fresnel announcement

[Mattias Gaertner]

On 7/28/26 07:11, Dibo via fpc-pascal wrote:
> Wow. Sound amazing. I'll test it later. I have question about LCL. Is it 
> required dependency or optional and can be compiled only via FPC without 
> Lazarus? LCL bring a lot of dependency libs which make deploying harder 
> especially on linux (GTK / Qt libs depending on which widgetset LCL was 
> compiled). I see that you use Skia in backend so I guess you are not 
> using LCL drawing routines

Fresnel can run natively without the LCL. It currently supports as 
native backend on Linux only gtk3, so you have the same dependencies as 
a gtk3-LCL application. Of course creating a wayland or X11 backend 
would be possible.

On Linux there are a Skia, a gtk3 native renderer and a LCL renderer. 
The Skia renderer runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and is the most 
complete of the Fresnel renderers.

Mattias