[lazarus] native Win32 Interface

[marius popa]

only a hint (maybe is a stupid):
if already you want a crossplatform api why don't you choose the .net 
you could start a port of the ide on that ?
the (King)win32 api is dead . No one goes that way anymore.
In the apache logs i see something like ie60 .net clr .
The next delphi is called .Net not win32(or 64 hehe remember hammer...)
It's runing on linux too (sort of) the .net 
There is a pascal compiler for the net :component pascal 
shure is not perfect but works ...even is spliting out java (my God)



On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 18:03:37 +0200
Florian Klaempfl <Florian.Klaempfl at gmx.de> wrote:

> At 11:51 27.08.2002 -0400, you wrote:
> 
> 
> > > On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 10:36:16 -0400
> > > "cryst" <cryst at golden.net> wrote :
> > >
> > > >If the whole group had wxWindows at the same level that Lazarus is at
> >with
> > > >gtk then windows support, (and Mac and others as well) would already be
> > > >present. The wxWindows is Open source and could use a nice programming
> > > >environment (like Lazarus)
> > > >to support it.
> > >
> > > This would a MAJOR pain, as wxWindows is entirely C++, which means we
> >would
> > > be unable to link it directly with Freepascal 1.0.x, instead all routines
> > > would have to be flattened using C, and then linked in.
> >
> >I don't see how this is different the gtk.
> 
> gtk is written in C while the wxWindows is written in C++. Linking a foreign
> language with C++ libs is _very_ hairy. Mostly, you need C wrappers as Borland
> did with Qt too. If the C++ interface isn't so "clean" as the Qt ones is, it
> is almost impossible to link foreign languages with C++. Even between 
> different versions
> of one C++ compiler this applies! Exceptions, multiple inheritance and
> templates and the name mangling make the story so difficult.
> 
> Qt 3.0/KDE3 shouldn't be a problem, I started already with the conversion 
> using a
> hacked kalyptus which outputs pascal instead of C.
> 
> 
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