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[Paul A. Norman]

Hi Wallace,

If you do ever end up on a machine with an up-to-date Windows 10 you will find Lazarus in Linux under the WSL 2  setup very very quick and useful.

With appropriate projects, through folders directly accessible in Windows and to WSL 2 Linux you can directly compile an exe in windows, and then the Linux version from the same code, in your WSL Environment.

Under Windows 10 you can establish remote desktop server in the WSL 2 Linux installation you choose, and run it from a RDP client in Windows. 
We look into a basic XFCE desktop.

For various reasons we've avoided Windows 11 to-date, which otherwise would make all that easier. 

I'm also exploring the Android components LAMW provides. It establishes a seperate IDE install 2.0.2 I think, and works with any USB connected compatible Android device, or of course emulators, and I think BlueStacks type setups might work for that as well.
And all your work is do one in FreePascal + the GUI.

We tried to see if Delphi would look at an altered License schedule to accommodate both us non-commercial, or smaller average non-mega corporations :-) 

Suggested to them it might open up a new market for them, but alas it wasn't to be, and as the Community License wasn't clear on some points (I directly communicated with people there) or appropriate, some one here on this list suggested using Lazarus.

So to make progress we had to make a move.
Which has proven great as the Lazarus project has grown and matured, and Delphi licenses remained static in nature, so the time has been well invested moving, at the time it was sad to be leaving Delphi though having signed up in Borland's day.

You sometimes have to research more, and do more homework in Lazarus, but the time is well spent and you obtain a better scope and knowledge of what is achievable. 
And if you make full Forum postings—others benefit too.

Paul

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https://PaulANorman.info

On 4 July 2022 10:00:12 am NZST, Marshland Engineering <marshland at marshland.co.nz> wrote:
>I too am moving over to Lazarus. The overhead for Delphi 10 is just too
>big
>for what I do. Found the Lazarus forums also quite good. I can compile
>on
>Linux as well which suits Raspberry Pi applications. 
>
>Now if only I could find a stripped down OS, I'd be happy. Still on Win
>7 and
>Mint.
>
>Cheers Wallace.
>
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