[Pkg-pascal-devel] status of FPC given deprecated GTK 2 ?

[David Bannon]

Hi Folks, just wondering whats happening with both FPC and Lazarus and 
all dependent apps being removed from Forky ?

I have been away out of contact and need to catch up.

It seems to me that FPC has been removed because it has a dependency on 
gtk2, yes it does, no it does not need to have ! The debian package, 
fp-units-gtk2-3.2.2 does list libgtk2.0-dev as a dependency but in fact 
that unit can be built on a totally gtk2 free headless system. It 
contains binding to various libraries (some of which are gtk2) but is 
totally self contained, it makes no use of gtk2.

https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,73405.msg575630.html#msg575630

If that issue can be resolved, then we can start looking at Lazarus, the 
problem there is that the prebuilt Lazarus packages downloadable from 
SourceForge use gtk2, however, for some time now, Qt5 or Qt6 would be 
viable alternatives.

Davo
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