I have put this set of programs up on GitHub under the name DelphiVersions on the off-chance someone might find it useful.Īs of the date of this writing, these compile and have been tested under Delphi 7, Delphi 2007, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE8, and all versions after that up to and including Dephi 10.4 Sydney. It was one of the first Rapid Application Development (RAD) tools. I recently revisited this program, pulled all the compiler directives out of the main form into a generic unit, and added a couple new applications using this new unit to the project group. The first version of Delphi (Delphi 1) was released for Windows 3.1 in 1995. Many years ago, to test some of these symbols before I found clear documentation like the links given above, I wrote a program to list out the symbols defined when compiled under different versions of Delphi, and later added other conditional symbols to list out other capabilities of the executing environment. There are also symbols defined for each version of Delphi. Since the new M1 processor is incredibly fast it is more than important to create native apps for it. There are a lot of compiler directives that can be used in your code to selectively compile different sections of code depending on the platform or options being used. With RAD Studio 11 it is possible to compile binaries for macOS ARM. It now compiles 32-bit or 64-bit, still creates console or Windows applications but now also can create Android and iOS apps if you have the FireMonkey library and cross-platform tools, you can create Android and iOS apps. The development stopped after the 4.01 version because the company. Many developers preferred Think Pascal over Apples implementation of Object Pascal because Think Pascal offered a tight integration of its tools. Delphi has come a long ways since it was first released in 1995. The IDE includes the compiler and an editor with and checking, a powerful debugger and a class library.

Delphi compiler versions