[Mono-list] Delphi to Mono Port?

[Lauri Kotilainen]

Hey,

> Hello All.  I am contemplating porting a server-side Delphi application (no
> UI but making extensive use of interfaces and with a very clean object
> hierarchy) to Mono with a view to running it on Linux boxes.  I stumbled
> into Mono whilst in the process of looking at C# since I know that a Delphi
> to C# port is easy - but would leave me stuck with a Windows server.
>
> How feasible would a Delphi to Mono port be?  I would much appreciate any
> advice.

Mono is an implementation of the runtime, not a new language -- if you
make a C# port that doesn't rely too much on native code by way of
P/Invoke, you should be able to compile run the app on Mono too.

You can use MoMA (http://www.mono-project.com/MoMA) to check if your
code uses a part of .NET that isn't implemented in Mono.

RemObjects Oxygene
(http://www.remobjects.com/product/?id={DC0A9947-5FED-4D34-8CC8-F2DCFA87A1FE})
is an Object Pascal implementation that claims Mono support, you might
be interested in that too.


-- 
Lauri Kotilainen
rytmis at rytmis.net