Borland Delphi

[DaOld Man]

Does anyone have a copy of Delphi when it was free you can share with me?
I had a copy and I developed JoyChoose and startcom on it.
I lost it when my hard drive crashed a while back.
I can edit the code in notepad+, but I cant compile it into an exe type program.
Delphi Free had a few very minor bugs in it, but for the price you cant complain.
I know we are not supposed to give away programs on here, and if this is not then please moderators, delete this post.
But I thought since it was a free download at one time, this post would be ok. I cant find the free version on the web, except a few suspicious sites.

Or if anyone else knows of a good (free) program that can compile C++ code, a point in that direction would be nice.
It dont have to be delphi.
But delphi had some good GUI that made programming more fun.

TIA

[destial]

If you want delphi you'll want https://www.lazarus-ide.org/ it's from freepascal but the only major difference is that it's standards compliant and still be worked on.

If you just want a c++ compiler and not an IDE I'd recommend clang but it really depends on what platform you're running on/developing for. Windows target -> MSVC will be your best bet there's a build tools that will get you just the compiler toolchain but might as well get visual studio express at that point . If your going cross platform I prefer clang as the primary compiler but you've got gcc on linux and clang is the default on OSX.

I'd really recommend a decent free IDE over notepad, there are enough options out there now that it shouldn't be hard to find one you like that's not too heavy. At least vim and some plugins 

[DaOld Man]

If you want delphi you'll want https://www.lazarus-ide.org/ it's from freepascal but the only major difference is that it's standards compliant and still be worked on.

If you just want a c++ compiler and not an IDE I'd recommend clang but it really depends on what platform you're running on/developing for. Windows target -> MSVC will be your best bet there's a build tools that will get you just the compiler toolchain but might as well get visual studio express at that point . If your going cross platform I prefer clang as the primary compiler but you've got gcc on linux and clang is the default on OSX.

I'd really recommend a decent free IDE over notepad, there are enough options out there now that it shouldn't be hard to find one you like that's not too heavy. At least vim and some plugins 

Thanks man. I will check out your suggestions. I did download Visual Studio 2019 which was free. It took me a while to get used to it, but it looks like a pretty nice IDE, however I keep getting errors when I try to make an exe of my project. I searched the net for reasons (forget the errors but I can round them up if anyone has any experience with this), but searching the net was running me in circles and I never got a clear answer, I did almost get to the point of throwing the whole PC out in the yard LOL. I finally just gave up and figured maybe that function is disabled in the free version.

[destial]

Probably was looking for specific DLLs or something along those lines, the initial setup for compiling on different versions of windows can be a PITA if you hit anything specific feel free to post it and I'd be happy to see what I can do. No promises though those compiler errors can be cryptic good old MS 

[Drnick]

Probably was looking for specific DLLs or something along those lines, the initial setup for compiling on different versions of windows can be a PITA if you hit anything specific feel free to post it and I'd be happy to see what I can do. No promises though those compiler errors can be cryptic good old MS 

Still think the Greatest Microsoft error Is There has been an error, click for more information,  More information, There has been an Error

[DaOld Man]

When I go to publish the project, it says it cant publish because project failed to build.
When I click on the build button it says it was a successful build.
IDK.

[destial]

When I go to publish the project, it says it cant publish because project failed to build.
When I click on the build button it says it was a successful build.
IDK.

Is there anything in the output window?