DaveB

Hi everyone, I am pretty much a newbie in Delphi (learnt a bit of Pascal and Delphi 20 years ago, but coming back to it in 2025 and everything feels very new to me). My intention is to start developping an app to handle chemistry operations. There are several nice toolkits around, for instance: - EPAM's Indigo toolkit https://lifescience.opensource.epam.com/indigo/ (with pre-existing wrappers for C/C++/C#/Java/Python) - Greg Landrum's RDKit https://www.rdkit.org/ (Python and C++ wrappers exist, as well as a MinimalLib CFFI https://greglandrum.github.io/rdkit-blog/posts/2021-05-01-rdkit-cffi-part1.html) - the Chemistry Development Kit https://cdk.github.io/ (with tutorials to interface it in Java) and probably others. However, I could not find any Delphi wrapper for any of them, nor any example case where someone would have been interfacing them in a Delphi app. Could anyone explain me how I could start making my way to using any of them in Delphi, or how to create a dedicated wrapper ? I did not find any previous topic on any of these toolkits on that forum, but do not hesitate to point me to another discussion topic where creating a wrapper to an external library was discussed (if understandable for a newcomer 🙂 ) Many, many thanks in advance for any help Dave

Dear @Lars Fosdal and @DelphiUdIT, many thanks for taking the time to consider my question and for your tips! Hugely appreciated !! I will take some time to get into the Indigo.pas kindly provided by @DelphiUdIT, and investigate also the python4delphi approach, might be easier for me to understand what the code is doing... hopefully... Many thanks ! Dave