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 Installation & compilation of TMS FlexCel


Due to its complexity FlexCel takes a while to compile. We are speaking about 1700 units with 700,000 lines of code, and a “mini-excel” which even includes a full PDF engine.

1) A full compilation for all platforms including debug and release configurations can take about 2 or 3 minutes. Most of the time is spent in mobile compilers like iOS and Android which are much slower than the Win32 compiler. If a full compilation takes up to 8 hours, then there is probably something wrong in the setup. (Antivirus, some unexisting library paths pointing to network locations could slow down compiling)

2) You should be compiling FlexCel just once: When you install it. Setup is similar to the VCL itself, it puts all dcus in the library path, and not the .pas files. And the result is similar, once you install it, it runs fast (recompiling the VCL would take many minutes too, again due to the complexity of it)

One way to speed it up, if you aren’t using the FireMonkey part, is to deselect it on setup:




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What our customers say

We had a very positive Flexcel talk in our meeting yesterday. Dave Martel was very positive about the product; the support; speed to fix an issue. By doing the talk he realised improvements over the years and has an amazing success story from analysing a large number of human created spreadsheets (1000’s of spreadsheets with 1000’s of readings). The speed of analysis allowed them to refine and re-train the importer to deal with human vagaries (comments / colour etc).

- Jason Chapman

Wow, I'm really impressed that you found this out in such a short time! Thanks especially for testing it with Softmaker Office itself and with some more elaborate spreadsheets, this makes me confident that it'll work with the "real life" files that I have to handle. Super service!

- Arthur Hoornweg

It's now very easy to build a report with the new Flexcel + Aurelius integration. It was so easy that I really thought I was doing something wrong. I will never go back to a report generator, Flexcel is way cooler and easier for reports

- Eduardo Elias

Another vote for Flexcel here, since the rewritten and updated Flexcel came out a year or two ago, I only use that. Mostly I use it to read XLS and XLSX files, which it does much faster and more flexibly than Excel automation, in my experience. If you also need to write XLS and XLSX files (which I do occasionally) Flexcel has the most amazing utility named 'ApiMate'. You can design your output report in Excel, including only a minimum of actual data, but with all the detailed formatting, headings, and column, row and cell properties you need. Then point ApiMate at the Excel file, and it generates a Delphi program to write the entire XLS file using the Flexcel API, with all the attributes matching those you created in Excel itself. It is then the work of a few moments to adapt the ApiMate-created functions to handle your real data. Magic! Flexcel support is prompt and helpful, too.

- Tim Frost

Thanks for an excellent product. I did have some issues Friday but these were expertly solved by Adrian Gallero over the weekend. I cannot recommend you products and service high enough. Thanks and kind regards

- Kevin Clegg

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