InstallAware's MultiPlatform Open-sources!
One of the biggest employer of Free Pascal developers open-sources their project. If you are unaware of how to use FreePascal, there's a buy-now page.
InstallAware has often been in the limelight. The InstallAware blog discusses their DevExpress lawsuit1, being forced to host Delphi install blocks2 and, there’s a long-running discussion over whom should pay for contractor’s license for Delphi3.
Delphi for Linux is…
Where is Delphi for Linux?
BeyondCompare uses QT4, the framework considered a step-sister (or step-brother?) to Delphi. The QT library contains QStringList, QString. These are used in Delphi 7’s CLX (if you installed the Delphi 7 CLX BPL files).
Delphi 7 developers would feel at home if they moved from Delphi 7 to QT Framework. While Kylix is long gone, QT framework is available in FreePascal and C++. FreePascal exposes QDialog, QButtons in all supported platforms.
The famous TotalCommander and it’s open-source variant, DoubleCommander, uses FreePascal5.
Do you know any apps built using Delphi for Linux?
InstallAware Github Repo
InstallAware for Windows Installer is built using Delphi, which makes it difficult, if not impossible, to open source - due to the large number of third party components which are closed source, not to mention Delphi itself of course.
InstallAware Multi Platform has been built from the ground up in Lazarus, the latter of which is an open source IDE built using the open source Free Pascal compiler; which presents the possibility to open source the entire InstallAware Multi Platform stack.
InstallAware was developed using FreePascal, and not Delphi. The original InstallAware was made using PlasmaTech’s Shell Control Pack6, Dream Company’s Inspector7 and Delphi JEDI’s MSI routines.
InstallAware Mutli-platform uses Greatis’s Runtime Fusion and many files developed by InstallAware’s FreePascal developers.
You can download InstallAware sources from their Git repository8.
If you are unaware of how to use FreePascal, or are one of the sanctioned entities, such as - Future US, Inc., L3Harris Technologies, Inc, or Wolters Kluwer N.V. there is a buy-now page9.
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