Embarcadero has had a free download of our C++ compiler and RTL (capable of making Win32 apps) for many years, going back into the Borland days. (In fact, Idera as a company likes providing free tools – check out some of the others here.) We aim to keep that free compiler up to date, and so we updated it from the frankly ancient classic “Borland” v5.5 compiler to the 10.2 Berlin compiler…
In 10.2.3, there is an issue affecting methods using the fastcall calling convention that allocate 4KB or more on the stack inside the method. The stack allocation could result in the ‘this’ pointer containing an incorrect value. This was reported…
There are a wide variety of languages used for mobile development: Swift, Objective C, Java, Kotlin, Delphi, C#, and C++. What are the reasons to choose C++?
Consider a language along three axes: expressiveness, conciseness, and performance.
An expressive language allows…
One big new feature in 10.2.3 is support for building with CMake. If you haven’t already, read the previous two posts: introduction to CMake and building with Windows, and building for iOS and Android.
Today I’d like to cover using CMake generators, and specifically…
Every RAD Studio release, we focus on what we call QPS: Quality, Performance, Stability. Recent releases of C++Builder have included:
10.2.0: Lots of work on our linker; improved codegen and optimizations; and debugging improvements (minimizing debug info size, better…
We’ve introduced some great new features for C++Builder in 10.2.3. Last week, I wrote about CMake support for our compilers. That post covered what CMake is, and how to use it for Windows, both Win32 and Win64. If you haven’t read it, please do; it’s worth reading…
A very exciting feature in C++Builder 10.2.3 is support for using CMake with our compilers. Let’s dig in!
This post is the first in a series on CMake, and will cover:
What CMake is
How to write a CMakeLists.txt file
How to build a project on Windows
What is…
Yesterday we released RAD Studio 10.2.3, and we have a number of new C++Builder features. I wrote earlier about rename refactoring for C++, but today I also want to mention one small but useful one for our power users: a new compiler driver called bcc32x.
It’s a…
Yesterday, we released RAD Studio 10.2.3! Over the next week, we’ll be blogging about some of the new features. Today I’d like to look at the introduction of rename refactoring for C++.
What is refactoring?
Over time, code grows and changes. You need to maintain…
C++Builder supports Boost, a common and useful C++ library. Through the GetIt package manager, you can install a build of v1.55 for our Clang compilers, or if you are using the classic compiler, an older version of Boost, v1.39.
The version available on GetIt for 10.2 had…
