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We support Delphi, a powerful commercial Pascal IDE and compiler.
Any Delphi tier, including free Delphi Community Edition, is fine.
We are an official Embarcadero Technology Partner. This means that engine developers have full access to the latest Delphi version, with all the Delphi platforms (including Android and iOS), for free. For testing CGE compatibility.
If you like Delphi compatibility, and want to see more of it (e.g. more platforms or Delphi-specific integration tools), please voice your needs and if you can — support us on Patreon!
In Castle Game Engine editor, open "Preferences" dialog. In both the "Code Editor" and "Compilation" tabs set "Delphi", if it was not auto-detected already.
That’s it. CGE editor is now integrated with Delphi. You can test it:
Press F9 to compile the project from CGE editor (using CGE build tool which will use Delphi command-line compiler under the hood).
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In case of Delphi Community Edition: It doesn’t have command-line compiler, so you have to compile the project using F9 from the Delphi IDE. |
Double-click on Pascal files to open them in Delphi.
Use "Code → Open Project in Code Editor" menu item to open project in Delphi.
We support Windows (both 32-bit and 64-bit), Linux, Android and iOS. You can compile and run applications using all Castle Game Engine features on these platforms using Delphi.
On all supported platforms, you can use either TCastleWindow or TCastleControl for rendering.
TCastleWindow is our standard way to create a window, in which our engine takes care of the whole input and rendering. Our "New Project" templates, and most examples, use it.
You can alternatively use TCastleControl that allows to put CGE rendering on FMX (FireMonkey) or VCL form. VCL is only for Windows, of course. See here for details.
To register the TCastleControl component in Delphi IDE, follow Delphi packages installation instructions.
The only platform not fully supported with Delphi is macOS. It is still supported partially:
Rendering on macOS doesn’t work, but basic units compile and 3D loading/processing works. You can test it with a command-line scene_information_cli_tool from our examples. It can be built and works as a command-line tool on macOS.
The engine is tested and supported on Delphi versions listed below.
Delphi versions supported:
Delphi >= 10.2.1 (or C++ Builder >= 11.3).
Delphi >= 11.3.
Delphi >= 10.4.2 (read here why, and how you can bend this rule to go as far back as "10.4.0 with patch 1").
Delphi >= 13.1 (read here why, and how you can bend this rule to go as far back as "10.4.2").
Delphi >= 13.1 (same reasons as iOS).
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Older Delphi versions didn’t support "project welcome page in a Markdown format". And most of our examples use this feature, to show a nice This causes harmless warnings when opening our examples in older Delphi versions, like 10.x — upon opening the DPROJ, it will propose to open |
In general: the answer is always "maybe, let’s talk", and it never hurts to ask us :) If you have a strong use-case, e.g. an existing cool project and it is really impossible to upgrade the Delphi version — contact us, tell us about it.
That said, we did research for each of the requirements above, so it’s not easy.
This GitHub issue documents reasons behind our minimal support for Linux.
For Windows, it could be possible to push the minimal supported Delphi version further down, although it gets more and more painful to maintain:) See XE7 test, 10.0.1 test, 10.1.2 test.
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