C Builder

The C Builder is a C development environment of the company Embarcadero Technologies. The C Builder is one of the Rapid Application Development tools, so-called. The development environment has been the manufacturer for many rechargeable components to simplify the programming work, in addition there are also many free and commercially distributed components from other manufacturers. Components may for example be a complete function libraries.

The software can not only handle C source code, but also use Object Pascal modules in the projects and compile. As GUI framework from Delphi known Visual Components Library (VCL ) is used. In recent versions of the following essential functions have been added: unit testing with DUnit, Windows7 compatibility, a C class Explorer and the possibility of the creation of UML class diagrams.

The builder was a long time by the company Borland developed until his department for software development tools under the name CodeGear spun off in 2007. Codegear in turn was acquired by Embarcadero in 2009. Is distributed by the C Builder. Both as a standalone product and as part of Embarcadero RAD Studio XE

With the C Builder, Borland C BuilderX is often confused, despite the similarity in name but an entirely different product line arises from the C BuilderX builds as cross-platform development environment on the code of JBuilder and is therefore programmed in Java. With the C Builder, he has essentially together only the supplied C compiler from Borland. However, the C BuilderX could not prevail against the VCL variants, has lost heavily in recent years in importance and is not being actively developed, in contrast to C Builder.

Version History

This list is a rough list of the previously released versions of the C Builder.