Embarcadero DROPS Anydac support Delphi XE also.

With all that noise on the line, we forget to comment this detail: you can't use FireDac on previous delphi version. The only version supported is Delphi XE3.

Several questions come to my mind.

First, are they idiot?

Second, no really, are they idiot?

For wich reason a company drop support not only to others pascal compilers , supossing they are a real competence, but to all delphi customers having previous delphi versions?

How can this not bring money to EMB? Why a Delphi 2010 or Delphi XE2 user CAN'T buy Firedac?

And what STOP THEM to do the same limitation on next versions and force us to buy the latest delphi IDE to continue using Firedac?

EMB marketers are stupid, is not posible to analyze on other way, and we delphiers are slaves of them.

EDIT/UPDATE: As all you already knows, EMB put reverse to this and now support previous compiler. Seems like we have to learn to live with kind of moves.

How to get FireDAC for Lazarus/FPC

You can't... thanks to Embarcadero...

Send them a thanks letter.

Embarcadero DROPS Anydac support for Linux

Embarcadero buy Anydac company and transform to Firedac product. They promise two weeks ago to ENHANCE this libraries, Dmirty Areiev (former anydac developer) also promise that. Great news right  Wrong!

Embarcadero can only innovate on provide us with stupid marketing ideas , restricting anything good. Today they release the new license of FireDac and that cr** don't allow COMPILE USING LAZARUS OR FPC!

Old Anydac customers, you lost! Fpc/Lazarus users you lost too! You have a linux server working with anydac? Sorry: Game over! Thanks to your lovely company EMBARCADERO! The company really cares about customers!

Embarcadero show us again is a sick company. The most amazing thing is Marco Cantu is the one on charge of that.

Sorry folks, I'm really shocked for that. We invested a lot of time on make anydac work for linux and nobody care, and nobody will pay for this.

Devexpress will never support Firemonkey

After asking to staff at devexpress, they say will not support firemonkey while the API suffer of changes from Embarcadero.

That are really bad news to developer express customers and in particular to Delphi users.

 Sadly, we will not see in years a DX crossplatafform version at all. Not strange, after all even the .NET version of devexpress don't work over linux or mac. I bet for the same lack of e**s to take risk and support users.

I will have it in mind next time i click renew on my dx subscriptions, you see...

Linux repositories compatibles with RemObjects

Sometimes is hard to have a updated version of lazarus and fpc working with remobjects version.

For this reason , im publishing and updating versions tested with remobjects latest stable release on my repos.

the stable version will be the tested with RO and the testing version will be the guarantee to compile ro packages.

Here are the instructions.

Repository Lazarus / testing FPC versions

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Installation instructions:

open a console or terminal window on your ubuntu or debian based linux box.

Add the key GPG

gpg --keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu:11371 --recv-keys 63EF10AF

Add the key to APT system:

gpg --export 63EF10AF | sudo apt-key add -

Check whether the key was built:

sudo apt-key list

Add the repository to its list of repositories

You can use synaptic or edit /etc/apt/sources.list directly. Add the line:

deb http://www.petrobox.net/lazarus/ lazarus-stable universe

or

deb http://www.petrobox.net/lazarus/ lazarus-testing universe

remember, the tested version will be the STABLE version only.

Install Lazarus

from the same console windows type

sudo apt-get update

then

sudo apt-get install lazarus

that's all.

Enjoy!

Namaste.

Lazarus on OS X (short version)

Simple steps to have working lazarus on MAC OS X.

Is required Mac OS X 16.2



1) Install full XCODE, download from apple orinstall from Mac OS X cd.

2) Install FPC from here .



3)Download lazarus sources , build and use.

Steps to get and build

Open a terminal.

go to devs folder

cd /Developers

get source of lazarus

svn co http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/trunk lazarus

when finish, change to downloaded sources folder

cd /Developers/lazarus

build it...

make clean all

run it!

./startlazarus



Enjoy.

DCPCrypt for 64 bits is here

The best library for encryption and decryption in delphi and lazarus is working in 64 bits now (Only in lazarus/fpc, while embarcadero don't release a 64 bits compiler).

Thanks to the amazing work of David Barton, library creator, we can get enc/dec at faster speeds using 64 bits.

You can download it here

Thanks David!

Enjoy!

Edited: The project is now hosted in lazarus-ccr project. a unique code builds on both,32 and 64 bits. I dont tested the lazarus-ccr code.