Turbo Pascal was introduced by Borland in November 1983. It turned 40 years old days ago.
Turbo Pascal was a milestone product for the industry, it started Borland as a company and it was the first popular Integrated Development Environment or IDE. It was a great product for the time, and its success was incredible.
You can read more about Turbo Pascal it in this recent blog post from David I…
Create and use Static Library (.Lib) and Dynamic DLLs in C++ Builder
September 11, 2023
Introduction:
This post describes how to create and use Static Library (.Lib) and Dynamic (Run-Time) DLLs in C++ Builder. A library is a collection of pre-compiled code that can be re-used by programs. There are 2 types of libraries: static library and dynamic…
There were a lot of great entries for our Enterprise Software Development Article Challenge showing the use of Delphi, C++Builder, InterBase and RAD Server in many different enterprise use cases.
List of entries:
Winner! How This Motorcycle Hazard Reporting…
I created a Bash script a while back for setting up Ubuntu for Delphi development, and update it for each new release. The script automatically installs all the required packages, along with PAServer. I recently updated it again due to an LLDB debugging issue.
Error
Unable to start LLDB kernel: ‘Symbolic link target does not exist: /home/jim/PAServer/22.0/lldb/lib/libpython3.so ->…
Offering some tips and suggestions you can consider to help the compiler be faster and consume less memory using the current version of Delphi.
Over the last couple of years, Embarcadero has put a significant effort into optimizing the Delphi Object Pascal compilers’…
Developer Interview: Kiriakos Vlahos, Creator of PyScripter, Developer & Maintainer of "Python for Delphi" Libraries
November 23, 2022
Kiriakos Vlahos is a software engineer with a PhD in Management Science and more than 40 years of experience in the industry. He is the creator of PyScripter, a Python IDE built with Delphi that is hugely popular among both Delphi and Python developers, and the developer and…
I always enjoy coming down to Brazil for their annual Embarcadero Developer Conference. Unfortunately travel restrictions moved the event virtual for the last couple years, but it was back to an in person event this year. Previous in person events had around 400 attendees, but this year had around 600 attendees. Even though they moved to a new venue, it was pretty close to capacity!
Solving an interesting issue upgrading a project from Classic to Clang.
A recent blog comment asked for help where a Clang project was linking to vcle.lib, but the library did not exist in the Clang linking path (lib/win32c/release): it’s present only for the classic…
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