This is because some major refactoring has to happen in RTTI and system units to support dynamic linking so that true delphi-style runtime dynamic packages can be supported. This is easier said then done because of how many platforms are supported by FPC & Lazarus.In contrast, Delphi IDE only runs on windows ...
unnouinceput|3 years ago
And? I don't see that as a minus in a world where virtualization and virtual machines exists. Also in Delphi IDE, in order to target Linux or Android, all you have to do is "select from this drop-down" and rebuild and/or deploy and voila!, you have executables ready to go. You try have a easy switchable Lazarus to compile for a new OS because I gave up. Right now, for each OS I want to target, I have a separate virtual machine with Lazarus installed there. Long live cheap RAM because I can run all 5 Lazarus VM's I need for creating cross-platform executables (Lin/Droid/iOS/MacOS/Win)