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C++ Builder 10.2.3 - CMake and Ninja Command-Line Support

Introduction CMake is a popular C++ build tool. RAD Studio 10.2.3 Tokyo provides support for building CMake projects on the command line using RAD Studio compilers. 10.2.3 also specifically supports using Ninja with CMake, allowing for very fast parallel builds. This…
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darkUnicode codec for Delphi

Author: Craig Chapman Another library to drop out of my Dark Glass development project today is my unicode codec (now named darkUnicode). https://github.com/chapmanworld/darkUnicode This simple class can be used to encode and decode unicode code-points by hand (independent of RTL functions to do the same), and I’ve used it previously to create my own unicode text buffer and stream…
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New in 10.2.3: Using CMake with Ninja

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…
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RTL Enhancements in RAD Studio 10.2.3

As listed in the “What’s New in 10.2.3” DocWiki page,http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Tokyo/en/10.2_Tokyo_-_Release_3, among the changes, new features, and fixesin the latest update of 10.2 Tokyo. One of the added features isMIME support improvements for the REST Client library. This was achieved by adding a new internal TMimeTypes class to handle the…
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RAD Server Support for Web Files in RAD Studio 10.2.3

The RAD Server (formerly EMS) platform is evolving to be a better backend for JavaScript applications, including of course those built with Ext JS. In the 10.2.2 release we improved support for returning JSON data based on the result of database queries, as covered…
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Google Cloud Shell Network Details

Marco Cantu’s blog post aboutRunning a Delphi Linux Application on Google Cloud Shell got me wondering more about the Google Cloud Shell,specifically around the networking. First of all, is the IP address public? jim@cloudshell:~$ hostname -I 172.18.0.1 172.17.0.2 jim@cloudshell:~$ curl icanhazip.com 35.199.148.57 So the private IP is different from the public IP. I’ll need to test…
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