Florian Klaempfl het geskryf: > > No. It actually proves that using 32 bit executables (and installer > packages!) on 64 bit linux is a pain. On windows, we can cover with two > installers Win2k (no idea about Win98) up to Win7 regardless if 32 or 64 > bit, on linux things are much more compilcated.
I thought we were talking about FPC performance, not deployment. But while you are at it. What if Linux versions of FPC simply used .tar.gz package instead of RPM or DEB? I have tested my executables (GUI applications, not FPC) generated on Ubuntu 8.04.2 with a old Slackware 9.0 [if I remember correctly] (anyway the distro was quite a few years old), and my apps ran perfectly. It's just the stupid .RPM and .DEB packages that prevent installation, due to other external dependencies (eg: pulling in MySQL or Firebird database libraries etc). I'm pretty confident a binary FPC executable can run on much older Linux distros. I anyway need to install Suse 8.0 for some old Kylix 3 project, so I'll be able to test this theory again. :-) Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
