Kylix 3 on ubuntu?

[Kevin]

Has anyone gotten Kylix 3 to install on ubuntu? I have seen a few
instances of people getting it to work when google it but no one ever
explains completely how they did it.

I'm using the most current version Ubuntu 5.04 "The Hoary Hedgehog". I
really like this distro and would like to be able to use it with Kylix 3.

Thanks!!

Kevin

[Josir]

Hi Kevin,
I just finish a fresh installation! And almost everything is working !
Ubuntu is the best distribution that I've ever seen.

I was just starting a tutorial - if some step did not work, let me know.

0) I always run Kylix as a regular user, never as root.

1) First, install following packages:

$sudo apt-get install gcc libgtk1.2 libxaw6

2) Copy reg92.txt to $HOME

3) sudo ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libx11.so.6 /usr/X11R6/lib/libx11.so

4) Untar installation and run setup.sh
The graphical installation will not work but the text one works fine for me.

5) After instalation, you will also need to do the following to get the
menus and toolbars to work (and pretty much everything else in kylix).
In the startdelphi script, add this:

LANG=en_US.ISO8859-1
export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1
xmodmap /usr/share/xmodmap/xmodmap.br
(this last line above is for brazilian keyboad, so you can omit it).

6) Yet, on last line startdelphi script, add LANG=$KYDEF_LOCALE:

LANG=$KYDEF_LOCALE /home/josir/kylix3/bin/delphi $*

But I can't run with the debugger yet. If you have any tip, let me know.

Good luck,
Josir.

[Kevin]

Josir,

Thanks, that got me through the installation. However, I did not have to
copy reg92.txt (I'm still not even sure where that file is) and I did not
have to untar the installation, I was able to set my default to the CDROM
and 'sh setup.sh' and that worked. I installed from a root terminal.

Your recommendations for adding to the startup script worked perfectly.

You are right, when I try to run the debugger, everything just freezes up
and I have to reboot. Is that what happens for you too?

Thanks,

Kevin

[Josir]

Hi Kevin,

- the reg92.txt is the registration file sent by Borland when you
download Kylix Open Edition. Probably you are using another version
that don't requires it.

- you don't need to reboot - this is a Win approach ;)
Just open System Monitor and kill the Kylix process.

- I didn't overcome this problem yet - if you find any solution let me know!

Have a nice weekend,
Josir Gomes
Rio de Janeiro - Brasil

[Kevin]

> - the reg92.txt is the registration file sent by Borland when you
> download Kylix Open Edition. Probably you are using another version
> that don't requires it.

OK, that explains it.

> - you don't need to reboot - this is a Win approach ;)
> Just open System Monitor and kill the Kylix process.

Yes, I figured that out after a few times. :-)

> - I didn't overcome this problem yet - if you find any solution let me know!

I thought I found the answer at:

http://crosskylix.untergrund.net/execshield.shtml

I think the problem may be related to this, but this doesn't seem to fix
it. You might try it out and see if it works for you.

Kevin

[Funky Beast]

Kevin wrote:

you might like to read up at:
http://andy.jgknet.de/oss/kylix/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Funky Beast

[Kevin]

Thanks. Actually I had already come across that, but didn't see anything
specific to this problem. There is a lot there though.

Kevin

[Funky Beast]

Kevin wrote:

About the debugger, it was told that its a kernel related problem,
here's Andreas' post on borland.public.kylix.non-technical group:

news://newsgroups.borland.com:119/4319...@newsgroups.borland.com