Craig Chapman May 26, 2017

Daemonizing a WebBroker Application on Linux.

Recently I wrote a blog post on using the fork() instruction to create a Daemon under Linux with Delphi. In that post, the Daemon which is created does nothing but enter into an infinite loop. For a recent webinar, I expand on this technique to…

Craig Chapman May 18, 2017

Binding to dynamic libraries from your Delphi applications.

During one of my webinars this morning on migrating services from windows to Linux, a question was raised about how to import libraries to Delphi. In this post I’d like to explain what I’d done in that webinar in more detail, and show you how…

Craig Chapman April 6, 2017

Calling Linux Commands from Delphi

One of the great features of Linux is that you can do just about anything from the command line. If we're able to gain access to command line instructions from our Delphi applications, this will give us a very powerful API for the system. In…

Craig Chapman April 5, 2017

Creating a Linux Daemon (service) in Delphi.

Edit: I originally wrote this post back in April 2017. Three months after I did, Paolo Rossi (MVP) also published a post on writing a Linux Daemon in Delphi entitled "Building a (real) Linux daemon with Delphi" I have to assume, given that Linux support…

Craig Chapman March 17, 2017

RAD Studio Tip: Using resource scripts to organize project dependencies.

RAD Studio has been around for a very long time, and continues to see new feature development. Consequently, it’s sometimes easy to forget some of the great features that have been included in the product for several years. This happened to me recently and so I…