[Lazarus] Indy with Lazarus, what is the latest state?

[Bo Berglund]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:23:09 +0200, Marco van de Voort
<marcov at stack.nl> wrote:

>On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:01:19PM +0200, Thierry B. wrote:
>> > > Where is the Indy 9 for freepascal/lazarus ?
>> There isn't one.  Indy 9 never supported FPC.
>
>This is wrong. There is a port that did support Windows. I never bothered
>with Linux (because the libc using Kylix port was on the way out anyway)
> 
>But its use is not recommended and a dead end.
>
>> > > The Indy 9 for freepascal is
>> > > http://www.indyproject.org/Sockets/fpc/index.en.aspx
>> 
>> That is for Indy 10, not Indy 9.  That is an old page anyway.  Support for
>> FPC was merged into the main Indy 10 codebase a long time ago.  Follow the
>> links on the main Indy website to the Indy 10 (Tiburon branch) code, and
>> compile the FPC packages in it.
>
>Recently the Tiburon branch has been merged back to trunk.

Yes, I saw that on the Embarcadero newsgroups.

>Indy is also planning to abandon the system/core/protocols package
>distinction.
>
>Afaik indy10 works with Lazarus runtime, but afaik the designtime support
>hasn't been updated in a while.

I am mostly interested in Lazarus for cross-platform use so if it is
only possible to use Indy10 with Lazarus/fpc on Windows then I am out
of luck here... :-(

Initially I want to program on Windows (because this is what I am most
used to) but to program/compile on Ubuntu Linux on X86 will be the
next step. And finally cross-compiling for embedded Debian Linux for
ARM.
So whatever I choose must work on all these targets. Although I do not
plan on actually running Lazarus on the embedded platform, I hope I
can cross-compile for it...

I am not planning to use many Indy functions though, mainly the
standard TCP server and client plus FTP and possibly SMTP client for
sending emails.


Bo Berglund