Cross-Platform Install / Use etc
lazarus / 3-General

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sprog · 2010-04-25 23:32

Let me explain a few things first. For years I have had an app which I
originally wrote in MS Basic / btrieve. I am now trying to decide on
how to rewrite it to be cross-platform (My main platform being OS X,
and the others Linux and Windows XP / 7). I have decided upon Lazarus
as the language / IDE but want a non-installable file system (in other
words not MySQL etc) that can be distributed across platforms (eg
SQLITE).

Now the questions; if I install Lazarus / sqlite on each platform and
compile on each platform, will the file contents be transportable
across platforms. My app is a diary /address book one. So if I am
using it at home on OS X and then take it on usb (with each platform
executable module) to work (Windows XP), will the data persist and be
accessible from the windows version?

Hope this is clear.

Also what do I have to do after installing Lazarus (already have on OS
X Snow Leopard) to get sqlite to be accessible to the code (which
wrapper?)

cheers

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davesimplewear · 2010-04-26 00:10

The lazarus wiki has cross compiling instructions, in Linux you would
have to have the sqilte3.dev package and sqlite3 package installed and
in windows you would need the sqlite and sqlite3.dll in windows/system
to access the data

Regards
Dave

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sprog · 2010-04-30 00:26

thank you