Current Generation methods in Apps under Windows 7?

[Ian Branch 134]

Hi Team,

My Customer lives in the dark ages and won't update is PCs from 32/64 bit Windows 7.

Has anybody had any issues with any of the newer Delphi language enhancements not working as desired in 32.64 bit Apps under Windows 7?

 

Regards & TIA,

Ian

[Cristian Peța 111]

Delphi 12.2 supports Windows 7 (SP1+)

If we are speaking about OS versions, language enhancements doesn't matter but API function calls.

https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Athens/en/Supported_Target_Platforms

[Anders Melander 1951]

5 hours ago, Cristian Peța said:

Delphi 12.2 supports Windows 7 (SP1+)

https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Athens/en/Supported_Target_Platforms

I don't think that list is up to date given that Delphi has complained when you tried to install it on Windows 7 since 10.3 (AFAIR).

 

That said, I upgraded my main system from Windows 7 to 10 last year but before then I didn't have any problems with the IDE or applications not working on Win7.

[PeterBelow 250]

25 minutes ago, Anders Melander said:

I don't think that list is up to date given that Delphi has complained when you tried to install it on Windows 7 since 10.3 (AFAIR).

 

That said, I upgraded my main system from Windows 7 to 10 last year but before then I didn't have any problems with the IDE or applications not working on Win7.

The IDE requires Win10 or 11, but applications build with it can run on older Windows versions, depending on which features they use. It may be necessary to modify the default manifest, though, if it specifies a newer Windows version as requirement (have not checked if it does).

[Anders Melander 1951]

Just now, PeterBelow said:

The IDE requires Win10 or 11

Okay, but it seems it doesn't. At least I haven't encountered anything in it that did.

[Ian Branch 134]

I develop on Win 11 64bit.

The question was/is about Apps created & Windows 7..

It would seem that it is all OK.

[Remy Lebeau 1545]

6 hours ago, Anders Melander said:

Okay, but it seems it doesn't. At least I haven't encountered anything in it that did.

Embarcadero does not officially support running the latest IDE on less than Windows 10. It may or may not work on older versions.

[Anders Melander 1951]

3 hours ago, Remy Lebeau said:

It may or may not work on older versions.

Thanks for clearing that up - or not.

[Brandon Staggs 366]

On 1/25/2025 at 2:51 PM, Anders Melander said:

Thanks for clearing that up - or not.

Where is the confusion?

 

Embarcadero does not support running the Delphi IDE on Windows 7. Will it maybe work? That's up to you to test and decide. They have wisely decided not to spend any effort and time and money testing it on Windows 7, so you are on your own if you want to try it. It's perfectly clear.

 

Also clear is that running the IDE on Windows 7 is not the same as compiling applications with the IDE that target Windows 7, which is what the original post is about.  It has nothing to do with IDE support whatsoever. I can even compile MacOS native applications in the IDE while the IDE cannot run on a Mac (without a VM, obviously). The official documentation states clearly that Windows 7 SP1 is a supported target platform for Athens. 

Edited January 27 by Brandon Staggs

[Anders Melander 1951]

39 minutes ago, Brandon Staggs said:

Where is the confusion?

I wouldn't know; I'm not confused - but that shouldn't stop people from explaining if they find joy in that.

 

It should have been obvious that I know recent Delphi versions doesn't support being installed on Windows 7, given that I've installed and run several versions on Windows 7 and of course got told by the installer that it wasn't supported. I also stated that I hadn't encountered any problem with Delphi applications running on Windows 7.