Kylix is a Linux version of the Borland Corporation's Delphi and C++ Builder development environments for Microsoft Windows. Kylix allows programmers to develop software applications for Linux using Object Pascal, C++, or C. Tux, a cartoon penguin frequently featured sitting, is the official Linux mascot. ... Borland Software Corporation (formerly Borland International, Inc. ... Delphi is a programming language and software development environment. ... C++Builder is a popular RAD (Rapid application development) environment produced by Borland for writing programs in the C++ programming language. ... Microsoft Windows is a range of operating environments for personal computers and servers. ... Tux, a cartoon penguin frequently featured sitting, is the official Linux mascot. ... Pascal is one of the landmark computer programming languages on which generations of students cut their teeth and variants of which are still widely used today. ... C++ (pronounced see plus plus) is a general-purpose computer programming language. ... The C Programming Language, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the original edition that served for many years as an informal specification of the language The C programming language is a standardized programming language developed in the early 1970s by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie for use on the UNIX operating...

Currently, the tool seems to be in trouble as there are no indications a new version (Kylix 4) is coming up. There is no upgrade path to Delphi 2005, and Delphi 2005 does not seem to include the CLX Library support. Furthermore, the last official supported versions of Linux are: RedHat 7.2, SUSE 7.3 and Mandrake 8.2. It will work with more recent versions but requires some research on the web to make sure you get older versions of glibc and make other changes to the default environment. In computing, Component Library for Cross Platform (CLX), is a cross-platform visual component-based framework for developing Microsoft Windows and Linux applications. ...

See Also

• Delphi programming language
• Free Pascal and Lazarus

Delphi is a programming language and software development environment. ... Free Pascal (or FPK Pascal) is a 32-bit and 64-bit Pascal compiler. ... Lazarus is a cross platform Visual IDE developed for and supported by Free Pascal. ...

External link

• http://www.borland.com/kylix/ - The official Kylix homepage.
• kylixforum.de.vu - German Kylix board with english section
• CrossKylix - a third-party toolkit which allows you to compile native Linux applications from inside the Windows Delphi IDE.