[Nottingham] Kylix - which distro?

[Iain Moppett]

Thanks.  Sadly, Kylix has decided to die again! Its happily installed
under Mandrake 10, but when a program is compiled (F9) it just hangs,
and the IDE completely locks up.  The only way out is to kill the
process.  Its not prgram complexity - even displaying a blank form does
the same.

I've tried unistalling and reinstalling Kylix but the problem remains.

There aren't any error messages that I can find.

Any one got any ideas - since my research is based on Delphi, if I can't
get it to work I'll have to go back to BSD world.  I've tried running
Delphi under Wine.  It works, but a) it looks horrible and b) it runs
very slowly.

Many thanks,

Iain

On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 23:09, Martin wrote:
> 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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