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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-NZ link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I think we&#8217;re talking about two different things:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>&nbsp;There&#8217;s a proof of concept of a technology that translates Delphi code to Java.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>There&#8217;s apparently been some indication somewhere of a Delphi compiler targeting Android that has been described as a &#8220;native&#8221; compiler.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>imho Java isn&#8217;t &#8220;native&#8221; code in the sense that most people would think (native is <i>generally</i> taken to be synonymous with &#8220;unmanaged&#8221;).&nbsp; However, it could be considered &#8220;native&#8221; in the sense that Java is (seemingly) the &#8220;lingua franca&#8221; of Android.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Iirc there was talk many, many, MANY years ago of a Delphi compiler that could/would/might emit Java Byte Code.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ross Levis<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, 29 November 2010 18:15<br><b>To:</b> 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [DUG] DelphiDroid<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>That sneak preview page says it creates a full Android (Java) solution so presumably that means it creates Java code which will run on any Android supporting Java.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jolyon Smith<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, 29 November 2010 5:45 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [DUG] DelphiDroid<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Well, that&#8217;s exactly my point... &#8220;native&#8221; means compiled to machine code, in which case you need to say code for *<b>which</b>* machine...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>For a more concrete example:&nbsp; The Delphi compiler does not target the &#8220;IBM PC&#8221; &#8211; it targets Intel x86.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>It also targets <b>Windows</b> on x86, but let us imagine that Windows was still NT and that NT still supported ALPHA hardware.&nbsp; Delphi &#8220;targets&#8221; Windows, but it does not produce ALPHA executables since it only targets x86.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>To say that Delphi targets Windows is not sufficient &#8211; you have to say &#8220;Windows x86&#8221;.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>So when you say &#8220;targets Android&#8221;, this doesn&#8217;t appear to be sufficient information to be a reliable indication of any meaningful, intent, just highly speculative spit-balling (&#8220;Ya know, with this new compiler architecture we (or &#8220;they&#8221;) could support Android...&#8221;).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I would be interested to know where you heard the speculation... the source can be significant in ascertaining the reliability of some messages...&nbsp; </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Alister Christie<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 30 November 2010 17:10<br><b>To:</b> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [DUG] DelphiDroid<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>From what I heard it will be native - although all I've heard are rumors - certainly no statement of intent.<o:p></o:p></p><pre>Alister Christie<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Computers for People<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://www.salespartner.co.nz">http://www.salespartner.co.nz</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>PO Box 13085<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Johnsonville<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Wellington <o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal><br>On 29/11/2010 4:19 p.m., Jolyon Smith wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Is that Android 1.5? 1.6? 2.1? 2.2?&nbsp; Or will it be 3.0?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Apart from that, isn&#8217;t a &#8220;target&#8221; for a compiler a bit more than just an OS/platform/framework ... ?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>If Delphi is to &#8220;target&#8221; Android then it must target the CPU architectures that Android itself runs on (with iPhone the distinction is blurred since only one phone hardware platform runs the OS &#8211; iPhone the OS <b><i><u>is</u></i></b> iPhone the hardware, to intents and purposes).</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Android might be running on (currently) ARM-Cortex A7, A8, or A9&nbsp; (as far as I can tell &#8211; I am not an Android owner or otherwise particularly interested in Android, so this is based on a few mins with my learned friend, Mr Google </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;border-color:-moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> <a href="mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz">delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz</a> [<a href="mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz">mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Alister Christie<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 30 November 2010 14:11<br><b>To:</b> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [DUG] DelphiDroid</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>My understanding is that both Android and iPhone are being actively experimented with as targets for the compiler.&nbsp; We'll probably hear more once we have OS/X, Win64 and Linux support, which I suspect that it would be at last 2 years away<o:p></o:p></p><pre>Alister Christie<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Computers for People<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="http://www.salespartner.co.nz">http://www.salespartner.co.nz</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>PO Box 13085<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Johnsonville<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Wellington <o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal><br>On 29/11/2010 1:40 p.m., David Brennan wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I think Jolyon is right.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>The difference between a proof of concept (which is basically what the guy has now) and a robust tool which handles the majority of Delphi features and libraries is enormous. Several orders of magnitude sounds about right to me (meaning 100-1000 times more difficult, or even more).</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I agree with the general principle though that being able to build for Android (and/or iPhone and others) would be great. However I think the only way it could really be done in a decent way is by Embarcadero continuing to extend the back end compiler to support more and more target platforms. They have made a few references in recent times which suggest they hope to do this but only time will tell.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Cheers,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>David.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;border-color:-moz-use-text-color&#13;&#10;          -moz-use-text-color'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz">delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz</a> [<a href="mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz">mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jeremy Coulter<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, 29 November 2010 1:23 p.m.<br><b>To:</b> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [DUG] Company closing</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>you should download it and make it do more then :-)<br><br>jeremy<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Jolyon Smith &lt;<a href="mailto:jsmith@deltics.co.nz">jsmith@deltics.co.nz</a>&gt; wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Is it a compiler? &nbsp;Technically I mean - I'd call it a translator. &nbsp;:)<br><br>I wonder how far it can go though, beyond the simple examples I mean.<br><br>Translating a push button and a call to ShowMessage() is one thing. &nbsp;Being<br>able to translate a complex application with all the libraries that Android<br>must support strikes me as a number of orders of magnitude more complex.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz">delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz">delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz</a>] On<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Behalf Of Alister Christie<br>Sent: Monday, 29 November 2010 12:39<br>To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List<br>Subject: Re: [DUG] Company closing<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Interestingly the compiler is written in C#<br><br>Alister Christie<br>Computers for People<br>Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266<br><a href="http://www.salespartner.co.nz" target="_blank">http://www.salespartner.co.nz</a><br>PO Box 13085<br>Johnsonville<br>Wellington<br><br><br>On 29/11/2010 12:08 p.m., John Bird wrote:<br>&gt;<br>?<a href="http://lenniedevilliers.blogspot.com/2010/09/delphi-for-android-sneak-previ%0Aew.html" target="_blank">http://lenniedevilliers.blogspot.com/2010/09/delphi-for-android-sneak-previ<br>ew.html</a><br>&gt;<br>&gt; Just checked out the DelphiDroid - not sure what state its at but simple<br>&gt; examples are at least working - see a sneak peek video at the above<br>address.<br>&gt; Says been tested with &quot;Delphi 6.0, 7.0, 2005, 2006 and 2010.&quot;<br>&gt;<br>&gt; This is exactly the sort of tools we need - why does Embarcadero not jump<br>&gt; onto this asap???<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt; John<br>&gt;<br>&gt; _______________________________________________<br>&gt; NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list<br>&gt; Post: <a href="mailto:delphi@delphi.org.nz">delphi@delphi.org.nz</a><br>&gt; Admin: <a href="http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi" target="_blank">http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi</a><br>&gt; Unsubscribe: send an email to <a href="mailto:delphi-request@delphi.org.nz">delphi-request@delphi.org.nz</a> with Subject:<br>unsubscribe<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list<br>Post: <a href="mailto:delphi@delphi.org.nz">delphi@delphi.org.nz</a><br>Admin: <a href="http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi" target="_blank">http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi</a><br>Unsubscribe: send an email to <a href="mailto:delphi-request@delphi.org.nz">delphi-request@delphi.org.nz</a> with Subject:<br>unsubscribe<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list<br>Post: <a href="mailto:delphi@delphi.org.nz">delphi@delphi.org.nz</a><br>Admin: <a href="http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi" target="_blank">http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi</a><br>Unsubscribe: send an email to <a href="mailto:delphi-request@delphi.org.nz">delphi-request@delphi.org.nz</a> with Subject: unsubscribe<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p><pre>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Post: <a href="mailto:delphi@delphi.org.nz">delphi@delphi.org.nz</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Admin: <a href="http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi">http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Unsubscribe: send an email to <a href="mailto:delphi-request@delphi.org.nz">delphi-request@delphi.org.nz</a> with Subject: unsubscribe<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></pre><pre><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></pre><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Post: <a href="mailto:delphi@delphi.org.nz">delphi@delphi.org.nz</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Admin: <a href="http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi">http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Unsubscribe: send an email to <a href="mailto:delphi-request@delphi.org.nz">delphi-request@delphi.org.nz</a> with Subject: unsubscribe<o:p></o:p></pre></div></body></html>