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===Frameworks===

Delphi offers two frameworks for visual application development, VCL and FireMonkey (FMX):
* [[Visual Component Library]] (VCL) is the framework for developing pure Windows applications. VCL is a long-standing framework, included in the first release of Delphi and actively developed ever since then.
* [[FireMonkey]] (later abbreviated FMX), was released in 2011, as part of Delphi XE2, together with an additional set of built-in compilers for non-Windows platforms. FireMonkey is a cross-platform framework for Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and Linux (x64). The GUI parts of FireMonkey are largely based on Direct3D and OpenGL. FireMonkey is not compatible with VCL; they are two separate frameworks. FireMonkey applications do, however, allow easy sharing of non-visual code [[Unit (Software Development)|units]] with VCL applications, enabling a lot of code to be ported or shared easily between the platforms.