one of the Professional or Enterprise editions), great! But you can fully compile QuArK with the Personal Editions.Ĭonfiguring Delphi falls into three main categories: If you are lucky enough to have access to a better copy of Delphi (e.g. You should also allow at least 250MB for all the QuArK source (20MB if you are selective during check-out), which can be obtained from the SourceForge code repository. Installing the necessary components is covered in the Configuration section, below.ĭelphi 6 Personal Edition takes a tad over 100MB to install, Delphi 7 Personal Edition is probably a bit larger. Or, if you have obtained a zipped version, unzip it first, and then run the setup program. Installing Delphi is a simple matter of running the executable which you downloaded or copied off a magazine cover CD. You also need to register your copy of Delphi after installing it - once again this is fairly painless and can be done automatically (if you have an active Internet connection) or on the web or via email (which takes a bit longer, but is still usually fairly quick). To download Delphi you need to have or to create a Borland account, this is a fairly painless procedure on the web. For the purposes of developing QuArK this is ideal!ĭelphi 6 or 7 Personal Edition can be downloaded from the Borland Delphi web site, or can sometimes be found on computer magazine cover CDs which seem to feature Delphi every six months or so (maybe ask a few friends if they have older magazines with cover CDs). Starting from Delphi 6, Borland have provided a Personal Edition of Delphi which is accompanied by a licence which says that you cannot use a Personal Edition of Delphi to produce commercial applications, and that you must make the source code of your applications available. Upto and including Delphi 5, you could only obtain commercial versions for which you had to pay a licence fee to Borland. The central core of QuArK is written in Delphi, with add-ons and lots of the map manipulation code written in Python. Remember, if you totally stuff things up you can always delete your QuArK source directory and do another checkout from source code repository without breaking anything. The steps below will get you started using Delphi to help develop QuArK, after that it is up to you to experiment and explore the Delphi IDE and the QuArK source.
There are lots of tutorials for Delphi on the web (altho none spring to mind at the moment).
It is basically the steps you need to follow, including screen dumps, to install the extra components which QuArK needs, setting a few options, and a couple of hints to make compiling easier. This is by no means a fully comprehensive tutorial on how to use Delphi. 4.10. Borland Delphi - getting, installing, configuring and using
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