Delphi installation

Delphi is a Windows program, so you need to have a computer with a proper version of Windows installed and enough free space on your hard drive. You may want to install Delphi on a physical computer or a Windows virtual machine image using one of the available virtualization solutions, such as VMWare. In this case, you can also use a Mac computer with a Windows virtual machine. Installing it on a virtual machine has some advantages in cross-platform development. To create iOS apps, you will need to have access to a Mac computer anyway. This could be another computer available on the local network or the same physical machine configured with a virtual machine to run the IDE. Whether you choose to install Delphi on a physical or virtual Windows machine, the installation process is the same.

Delphi is implemented as a native Windows 32-bit executable, but it is recommended to install it on 64-bit versions of Windows 11, or a recent 64-bit version of Windows 10.