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Hello everyone!

A friend of mine made a program in Pascal many years ago and he now wants to give it a "more sophisticated" look, which means making it available for Win32 platform. I thought the most appropriate language nowadays (for translating the code into) would be Delphi as it is also known as Object Pascal.

However, I would much appreciate some advice. Maybe am I wrong and there is a more suitable language. If Delphi is the "chosen" one, would anyone also recommend any SDK or IDE? The main idea is to have windows so, any environment similar to Visual Studio would be perfect.

Thank you very much beforehand.

Richard (from Spain) 82.158.1.129 19:55, 11 February 2008 (UTC).

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Hi,

Delphi is the way to go, if he wants to reuse any of his existing code. Most of the stuff should compile right away. There are obviously pitfalls like integer changing from 16 to 32 bits or no crt unit available. Also, direct hardware access is not possible.

The Delphi 2007 IDE is more similar to Visual Studio than most old time Delphi users liked. ;-) The SDK would be the Delphi VCL (Visual Component Library) which is included in the product.

Alternatives are FreePascal (+ Lazarus) (Which I can't recommend, but your (his) mileage may vary.) and Chrome, which is a plugin for Visual Studio (Which I don't know much about.)

--Dummzeuch 07:53, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

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