[Lazarus] Using WineLib with FreePascal or Lazarus?

[Juha Manninen]

Hello!

> Firstly the DLL in question cannot be easily replaced as the company who
> wrote it was bought by SAP and then that side of the business disappeared.
> So as far as I'm aware there is not way to replace that functionality and
> it really would take several multi-man years to rewrite it as it is quite a
> specialised library. The technology in question is called LinguistX.
> 
> I will look into if it is at all possible to link a Lazarus app with
> WineLib.

A quick Google search for "LinguistX" gave me:

  http://www.inxightfedsys.com/pdfs/LinguistX_FinalWeb.pdf

It seems to be made with C++ and it is multiplatform.
Is it really not possible to get the library binaries or source any more?
I understand they have discontinued the product's support but it should be 
possible to buy the library for other platforms, or better yet to buy its 
source code.
I guess they haven't deleted the source code permanently and someone has it.
The list (below) does not mention Mac OS X, but if you get the sources it 
should be easy to port.

IMO, it just doesn't make sense to struggle with Wine when a native version of 
the library already exists.


Regards,
Juha Manninen




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Supported Operating Systems and Compilers

• Solaris 8 and 9 on SPARC processors with GCC 3.2.3 and with Forte, 32 bit 
and 64 bit
• Red Hat Linux on Intel processors: ES 2.1 with GCC 2.96, AS 3.0 with GCC 
3.2.3, and AS 4.0 with GCC 3.4.3
• SuSe Linux on Intel processors: Enterprise Server 9 with GCC 3.3.3
• Windows 2000, XP and Server 2003 32 bit with MSVC 6.0 and Windows 2003 with 
MSVC 7.0
• AIX 5.2 on PPC processors with Visual Age 5.0
• HP-UX 11.11 on pa-RISC processors
with aCC A.03.33 and HPUX B.11.23 on Itanium processors with aCC a.05.52 for 
32 bit and 64 bit architecture
LinguistX Platform Includes
• Windows DLL and Unix static library
• C++ API and sample applications

LinguistX Platform Includes

• Windows DLL and Unix static library
• C++ API and sample applications
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