Delphi adopted FPC?

[sam707]

my wife just bought me Delphi  XE7 architect as chrismas gift. as I couldnt wait, just installed it and I saw many "freepascal_" subdirectories concerning iOS and Android.

as I do not have time yet for further investigation, I just wanted to know/share if someone else here noticed the same facts. because it seems that embarcadero studio uses some/many free pascal sources as base to crosscompile. Still prefer lazarus in many ways though (price isnt the same LOL $5500 => Embarcadero)

Regards

[x2nie]

Yes. I have heard it that Delphi uses FPC for iOS, somewhere.

[Deepaak]

yes, delphi don't support cross platform, so for cross platform (linux, mac) they use freepascal.

[sam707]

... in the Hope embarcadero is generous/bountiful with laz/fpc team !!

[motaz]

$5500 for how many licenses of Delphi?

[sam707]

$5500 is for the Architect version => RAD studio => Delphi + C++ Builder, go to their site and check, it is the full featured version (around $4800 + taxes in my country)

https://store.embarcadero.com/542/purl-buynow

[jwdietrich]

... in the Hope embarcadero is generous/bountiful with laz/fpc team !!

They might at least be interested in supporting continued development of FPCs Delphi compatibility.

[stocki]

my wife just bought me Delphi  XE7 architect as chrismas gift. as I couldnt wait, just installed it and I saw many "freepascal_" subdirectories concerning iOS and Android.

as I do not have time yet for further investigation, I just wanted to know/share if someone else here noticed the same facts. because it seems that embarcadero studio uses some/many free pascal sources as base to crosscompile. Still prefer lazarus in many ways though (price isnt the same LOL $5500 => Embarcadero)

Regards

Are u sure? Where?

[marcov]

As far as I know, only XE2 used Free Pascal for iOS because their own ARM compiler was not ready. Maybe they still maintain it internally, but I never heard of still supporting creating FPC based apps in released modern versions.

[kazalex]

Delphi has used FPC only in XE2 for building iOS applications. After XE2 FPC is not used because Delphi has own compiler for mobile platforms (iOS, Android). Files "freepascal_" which you see it is a connectors generators for Datasnap servers so as users of FPC can use DataSnap Delphi Servers in own client applications. Analogous generators exist for Java, JavaScript, C# and Objective-C. And don't be naive - FPC cannot replace modern Delphi.

[x2nie]

Delphi has used FPC only in XE2 for building iOS applications. After XE2 FPC is not used because Delphi has own compiler for mobile platforms (iOS, Android). Files "freepascal_" which you see it is a connectors generators for Datasnap servers so as users of FPC can use DataSnap Delphi Servers in own client applications. Analogous generators exist for Java, JavaScript, C# and Objective-C. And don't be naive - FPC cannot replace modern Delphi.

Don't be naive, give us link that proof.

[kazalex]

Don't be naive, look at FPC bugtracker or language/RTL features (advanced RTTI, custom attributes, overloadable default properties, anonymous methods, or simple thing as ObjectInvoke). FPC cannot compile code a compile at Delphi 2006 (http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=26075, http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=25011).

[x2nie]

And don't be naive - FPC cannot replace modern Delphi.

You can say, that Delphi (even the most modern one) can't replace FPC.
isn't it?

[kazalex]

Power of FPC is really cross-platform (and thank LCL of course). Yes, modern Delphi cannot replace FPC on this field.

[ttomas]

1. Delphi XE2 use freepascal for iOS
2. FireDAC=AnyDac, AnyDac support freepascal and nobody delete freepascal support
3. FireMonkey=KSDev-VGScene also support freepascal and nobody delete freepascal support