Delphi VCL/FMX for Linux before the official platform support
There was a time when Borland approached Linux platform in a Delphi's "clone" called Kylix . This product eventually reached its end of life after the last release of Kylix 3 on August 2002. Currently in the era of Delphi XE with Firemonkey, we can finally target more platforms than Windows. However, Linux is not yet among those targets. We now can officially see the support for Linux server in the roadmap , but no mention about the Linux desktop development so far. This article will show you that you can quite easily target Linux desktop users already now, not only with Firemonkey, but even with VCL, so from most recent Delphi XE versions all the way back to probably Delphi 3. This article will cover: Wine - running Windows apps on Linux, BSD, Solaris and Mac without VM or emulator Pre-Firemonkey cross platform software with Delphi VCL Firemonkey applications tailored for Wine Code snippets Wine - running Windows apps on Linux, BSD, Solaris and Mac with