Kylix (software)

Kylix was an integrated development environment from Borland companies for the Linux operating system.

The name comes from the Greek and refers to a drinking vessel.

Kylix was developed based on Delphi and C Builder. As a graphical library, it is based on the Qt GUI framework that is addressed by means of a library called CLX. The Kylix IDE based on libwine and is therefore not a native Linux application. Easy to recognize this is that the color of the mouse pointer in the Kylix window will change to white and font metrics need to be created. Borland has chosen this path because the Kylix IDE is a byproduct of Delphi 5 and the Windows system calls had to be implemented on Linux. With Kylix applications built on the other hand are native Linux applications that do not require Wine.

It was originally supported only as a programming language Object Pascal Delphi, Kylix since version 3 (released in 2002) is the programming in C is possible. Similar to Visual Basic programming is facilitated by a visual programming environment. Borland introduced in addition to the commercial versions, a so-called Kylix Open Edition available for free download, but only with the programs could be developed under the GPL.

Meanwhile, the project Kylix is set, there is no more care by the manufacturer. Programs written with Kylix continue to be, even on current Linux distributions, running. Lazarus is a strongly leaning against Delphi and thus Kylix development environment, which is under the GNU General Public License ( GPL).