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Good news: DEC V6.4.1 jsut got released. https://github.com/MHumm/DelphiEncryptionCompendium/releases/tag/V6.4.1 What is this? DEC, also known as Delphi Encryption Compendium is a cryptography library for Delphi and FPC. What's new in V6.4.1? This is mainly a bugfix release with these topics: fixed some regression which produced wrong output at least for the 2DES encryption algorithm when used with CBC block chaining kode improved layout and handling of GCM block chaining mode in Cipher_FMX demo application added a new Cipher_Console_KDF demo application fixed and improved the documentation, especially about wrongly written GCM properties What's the plan for the future? Have a short rest 😉 Require Delphi 10.1 Berlin instead of D2009 as minimum compatible version The rest of the plan (which exists) will not be disclosed yet. Cheers TurboMagic

The docs are pretty clear about it (Message Methods) :

The omission of brc32.exe is probably an installer bug Use brcc32.exe instead or better yet, use the MS resource compiler rc.exe

You could also check server version on connect and execute SET BIND OF TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE TO LEGACY; SET BIND OF TIME WITH TIME ZONE TO LEGACY; SET BIND OF DECFLOAT TO LEGACY; SET BIND OF NUMERIC(38) TO LEGACY; That way program works with FirebirdSQL 4.0 without changing server config. Of cause you must not use new unsupported data types in that database. But that solves problems with automatic type conversions and use of new types in system tables.

Someone should have invited David Millington or the dev at Embarcadero that is now responsible for those plugins to the Delphi 11 beta so they could have worked on those plugins at the time when many other IDE plugin devs did. /s

Note that if you are writing commercial software and you are not using EurekaLog or similar tools, you are really missing the best way to identify WHERE your apps fail, when they fail. Usually, that is a when, and not an if - and EL gives you full insight into where something did not go according to plan in your code. You still have to come up with the why yourself 🙂

A word of warning: there seems to be some issues with GooglTest framework and C++ in RAD Studio 11.0. I am working on this and will post news as and when it is available !

Do any of the Delphi compilers that use LLVM (do they all use LLVM now?) allow one to output the LLVM Intermediate representation (IR) to a file? In the Clang / LLVM compilation pipeline this file would typically have an ll extension and is a kid of pseudo-assembly. Thanks

I have now got googletest framework up and running with a Windows VCL clang64 project. I've posted two blogs about this here: https://cigolblog.wordpress.com/2021/07/16/tips-for-using-googletests-with-embarcadero-clang64-for-windows-vcl-projects/

Ok, that's news to me (DUnitX author). 😉

At least it's better than non-existence.