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TMS Smart Setup v3.1 brings Delphi 13.1 Arm64EC support to TMS products—and raises the bar for the Delphi ecosystem

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Keeping development environments current should never be the slowest part of software development. Yet for many Delphi teams, product installation, updates, dependency handling, and onboarding across multiple machines can still be a friction point. That is exactly where TMS Smart Setup changes the experience.

With TMS Smart Setup v3.1, that experience takes another important step forward: support for the new Delphi 13.1 Arm64EC Windows target. This matters not only for customers using TMS products, but also for the broader Delphi community looking to adopt new platform capabilities faster and with less installation overhead.

TMS Smart Setup is TMS Software’s modern installation and product management solution for Delphi & C++Builder. It combines command-line and GUI-driven workflows, supports automated installs, parallel download and build operations, dependency handling, self-updating, and smart rebuild behavior that only rebuilds what changed.

Ready now: Arm64EC support through TMS Smart Setup v3.1

TMS Smart Setup v3.1 is available now, and we have already updated:

with support for Delphi 13.1 Arm64EC.

What makes this especially significant is not just that support has been added, but how it is delivered. Thanks to TMS Smart Setup, these products now install seamlessly for Delphi 13.1 and are immediately ready for use for the Windows Arm64EC target through the TMS Smart Setup installer.
That means less manual intervention, less guesswork, and a much faster path from “new target available” to “productive development environment ready to go.”

Why this is good news for TMS customers

For TMS customers, the biggest win is convenience—but not convenience in a superficial sense. This is convenience that directly translates into faster setup, less maintenance effort, and fewer environment-specific surprises.

TMS Smart Setup was designed to provide a modern install experience with capabilities such as a single command to download or install a full suite of TMS products, parallel downloads for speed, automatic detection of missing or outdated products, dependency checking, parallel package builds, and smart rebuilds that only rebuild modified packages. It also handles IDE registration and path configuration, and does so without requiring administrator permissions.

For customers working with many products or multiple Delphi versions, this becomes a major productivity advantage. Instead of treating installation and updates as a repetitive chore, TMS Smart Setup turns them into a streamlined, repeatable process.

And now, with Arm64EC support in place for Delphi 13.1 across a broad range of TMS product lines, customers can move to the latest target more confidently and with far less friction.

Why this is good for the Delphi community in general

The impact goes beyond TMS customers.

Every time a new Delphi target appears, one of the biggest ecosystem challenges is not the compiler itself—it is how quickly libraries, components, and dependencies become easy to install and use on that target. If setup is slow, fragile, or highly manual, adoption slows down. If setup is automated and reliable, adoption accelerates.

That is why TMS Smart Setup, available as open-source project on Github, is meaningful for the wider Delphi community. It helps shorten the gap between new platform support becoming available and developers being able to use real-world component libraries productively.

In other words, TMS Smart Setup is not only a product installer. It is an ecosystem enabler.

By making installation faster, more predictable, and easier to automate, it helps Delphi developers spend less time wrestling with configuration and more time building applications. That benefits teams evaluating Delphi 13.1 Arm64EC, consultants maintaining multiple environments, educators setting up labs, and companies standardizing developer workstations.

Speed and convenience in one all-in-one tool

TMS Smart Setup stands out as an all-in-one install and product update tool with exceptional speed and convenience.

Its architecture is built around modern needs:

Install products quickly
Update products efficiently
Automate setup in scripts and CI/CD pipelines
Manage dependencies automatically
Rebuild only what is necessary
Keep environments current with minimal manual work

This is also an invitation to open-source developers to make the install of your Github hosted projects with just one YAML file compatible with TMS Smart Setup and let users install & update your library in the Delphi IDE with a single command-line execution.

Prefer a GUI? Meet TMS Dashboard

For developers who prefer a visual interface, TMS Dashboard provides a GUI on top of the TMS product management experience.

TMS Dashboard is positioned as a central place to manage TMS Software products. It allows users to install, update, uninstall, and renew licenses, while also making it easy to search for products, videos, blog posts, and support resources. It also includes a News area to stay on top of the latest movements at tmssoftware.com, be it videos, support-center entries, blog articles like this.

Classic installers will retire

If you are still relying on the classic TMS installers, now is the right time to switch to TMS Smart Setup.

The classic installers will soon retire, and TMS Smart Setup is clearly the forward-looking path: faster, more flexible, easier to automate, and better aligned with modern Delphi development practices.

This is not just a replacement. It is a significantly better way to manage TMS products.

Bruno Fierens

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