[Nottingham] Kylix - which distro?

[Martin]

Iain Moppett wrote:
> Thanks.  With  a lot of help from Bob & Andrew, Kylix is now working
> at a reasonable resolution under Mandrake 9.2.  Just need to sort out
> the sound now!


A little after the event, here's some notes from another group for Kylix
on Mandrake:

AM Christophe wrote:
[...]
> 
> I don't know for Kylix 3.0 but Kylix 2 Personnal Edition runs on
> Mandrake 10.0. I think you missed the README note about extra
> libraries to install (like libstdc++2). Start Kylix in a terminal to
> see the error message or edit the log file. The quick fix: in a
> terminal as root type:
> 
> urpmi libstdc++2.10
> 
> If it doesn't work and if the error messages are still the same than
> perhaps 3.0 has issues not found in 2.0. Ask in Borland newgroups... ;)
> 
> As soon as it will works and if you want to be sure that Kylix
> libraries & programs will be completely compatible with Mandrake, get
> Borland CLX source code and recompile it than recompile your
> software.
> 
> CLX could have been integrated into Mandrake distro for example if it
> 
> wasn't requiring the borland compiler to be compiled or if the borland
> compiler was released under a GPL compatible licence. CLX is on top
> of Qt3 and Qt3 is in all distro so you should always be able to
> recompile your software.
[...]


Good luck,
Martin


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