[pjmlp]

Then you surely remember Kylix.

Modern Delphi does Linux just fine.

[hdjjhhvvhga]

Kylix was such a failure! I remember being excited about it and then realized how wrong everything was: starting from licensing to Wine runtime.

[benibela]

Using Wine sounds perfect

Delphi's VCL is tied to much to the Windows API to work without it.

Even Lazarus implements a lot of Windows API like functions. E.g. you call one of these functions on Linux and it converts it to a corresponding gtk/qt function call: https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/lazarus/lazarus/-/blob/mai...

But it is all less reliable because the Lazarus community is much smaller than the Wine community