delpy is a collection of Python tools for working with legacy Delphi codebases.

With delpy you can:

• Explore an unknown codebase and discover what it contains.
• Visualize a program as a graph showing all the files it includes and how they depend on each other.
• Compile a program/library outside of the IDE (reproducable automated builds that can be run on your build server).
• Preprocess a codebase to get rid of preprocessor statements.
• Prune the codebase removing all files not part of the source of any program.
• Prettify source code.

delpy has been tested against 6 million lines of code written with Borland Developer Studio 2006. If you compile your program with a different version of Delphi, your mileage may vary.

delpy was written by Martin Matusiak in 2010 and is a by-product of my master's thesis at Utrecht University.

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To begin with

• Get up and running with delpy
• The basics of Delphi programs

Tools

• compilertools.py - Setting up a local BDS
• viewgraph.py - Tracing programs and viewing the program graph
• explore_codebase.py - Exploring a codebase
• graphdiff.py - Comparing graphs
• makedelphi.py - Compiling Delphi programs
• preprocess.py - Preprocessing a codebase
• prunecodebase.py - Pruning a codebase
• delphiparser.py - Prettifying source code

Advanced uses

delpy is not only a tool suite, but also a full blown program transformation framework.

• The parser
• The grammar