History
Danny Thorpe seems to have been largely responsible for getting Borland to fund a Linux version of Delphi, and he did a lot of the work necessary to make the Delphi compiler produce Linux executables. While both Delphi and Kylix run on 32-bit Intel processors, Linux uses different register conventions than Windows and, of course, the executable and library file formats are different; see DLL, EXE, ELF for details.
There were three releases of Kylix, all of which were criticized for their relatively low quality . The first version, in particular, struck many users as a beta-quality product which should never have been released. Versions 2 and 3 included bug fixes, and ported the remaining "enterprise" and C++ Builder features of the Delphi 5 model. However, questionable quality and a high price led to poor sales, and Kylix has apparently been abandoned: despite occasional Borland references to Linux there has been no indication that another Kylix version is forthcoming. There is no upgrade path to Delphi 2005 nor Delphi 2006, and neither seems to include support for CLX. Furthermore, the last release of Kylix ran under now outdated versions of Linux: Red Hat Linux 7.2, SUSE Linux 8.0 and Mandrake Linux 8.2. With some tweaking, it is possible to run Kylix on Slackware Linux 8.x and 9.x. Kylix will run under more recent Linux distributions but requires some research and additional configuration (e.g. having an older version of glibc available, and making other changes to the default environment).
In 2009 Embarcadero posted the current Delphi and C++ Builder roadmap. As part of project Delphi "X" cross compilation for Mac and Linux is planned.
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