Getting Started with FmxLinux

Thank you for downloading FmxLinux. This guide will help you get started with FmxLinux.

Overview

FmxLinux is a toolchain that permits the development Linux application using Embarcadero Linux compiler and FMX.

Conceptually, FmxLinux is a combination of two major components:

Runtime: Brand-new implementations of FireMonkey for Linux, tightly integrated with the native linux runtime.
Design Time Management: An IDE expert which allows to add Linux platform to FMX project and setup it with FmxLinux.

FmxLinux requires Embarcadero Delphi with Linux development add-on. It works with all Delphi versions since Tokyo.

Launch setup program and follow instructions. If setup completed without any error, FmxLinux installed. You can launch Delphi now.

Create or open FMX project and right click on Project in Project Inspector.

Click on Add Linux platform item

That's it. Now you can switch platform to Linux64 and run your app.

1. Install Required Libs: sudo apt install xorg libgl1-mesa-dev libosmesa-dev libgtk-3-bin

2. Start broadway server: broadwayd

3. Run application from IDE

4. Load :8080 in the browser

FmxLinux includes few usefull examples, after installation you can found it in you Documents\FmxLinux folder.

Bug reports and suggestions welcome at BitBucket