[Lazarus] PBear and Gecko SDK components in Lazarus..

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, dominique at savagesoftware.com.au wrote:

> Hi all,
>   From reading this thread...
> http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,6158.15.html
> 
> It seems that Phil had done some work in getting PBear working with
> Lazarus. Does anyone know who Phil is, and if this is now available from
> SVN?
> 
> I am interested in both PBear and GeckoSDK working with Lazarus apps,
> particularly on Windows and Mac OS X.
> Currently I have an application which uses PBear with Delphi on Windows and
> it works really well. Having it work on Mac OS X with Lazarus/FreePascal
> would be the easiest porting route, but I'm willing to consider GeckoSDK as
> an alternative just to ensure cross-platform browser support.

I tried GeckoSDK once, but I never got it to work. Compiling was not a problem,
but it never worked correctly; The first call to initialize Gecko invariably 
crashed the application.

You might be better off trying to fix PBear. I use it myself, and IMHO it should
be easy to port.

Michael.