[ros-general] writing file manager / how to use lex?

Markus Niemistö markus.niemisto at gmx.net
Tue Mar 23 09:55:55 UTC 2004


On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:20:17 +0100
Mark IJbema <mark at ijbema.xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Well, by using delphi your working against the OSS character of ROS,
> that is, it couldn't be used in the ROS project. There's no OSS Delphi
> compiler, and there are legal problems with delphi as well (see XPDE).
> And as last point, afaik Delph isn't crossplatform.

Actually there is Lazarus http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org It is open
source and aims to be source compatible with Delphi. It uses Freepascal
compiler as backend which makes it quite portable.

Markus



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