Chilkat v11.3.0 Release Notes

Pinned December 16, 2025

  The main features of this release focus on Chilkat’s Ai class, enabling interactive AI response streaming directly into embedded desktop application browsers. It supports Azure, custom base URLs for OpenAI-compatible providers, and local providers like Ollama. ✨ New Features Ai Real-Time Streaming AI Responses to Embedded Browsers in Desktop Apps — Stream AI responses […]

Chilkat v11.2.0 Release Notes

Pinned November 3, 2025

Previous Version: Chilkat v11.1.0 Release Notes The main addition in v11.2.0 is the Chilkat.Ai class, and the Chilkat.StringBuilder.MarkdownToHtml method. Ai: The Chilkat AI class provides a unified API for interacting with different AI providers: OpenAI, Google, Claude, xAI, Perplexity, and DeepSeek. It provides functionality for conversation management, multimodal inputs, and streaming mode. Markdown to HTML […]

Semantic Versioning Starting with Chilkat 10.0.0

Pinned September 26, 2024

Starting with the v10.0.0 release (end of September 2024), Chilkat moves to standard semantic versioning.   Prior to this release, for various technical reasons, Chilkat was stuck with versions 9.5.0.xx, where only xx changed. For this first leap to semantic versioning, where the major version changes to 10 (from 9), there are no backward incompatible changes.  […]

Explaining OAuth2.StartAuth

August 29, 2019 in Uncategorized

This post explains the OAuth2 flow for desktop apps.   It begins by calling OAuth2.StartAuth. The oauth2.StartAuth method does two things: 1) Returns a URL that should be displayed in a browser. 2) Starts a background thread to receive the redirect callback from the browser. The flow of control is like this: 1) The browser (popped […]

iPad Simulator: Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: _readdir$INODE64

August 12, 2019 in Uncategorized

Question: We are currently seeing the following error when we run the build on iPad Simulator Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: “_readdir$INODE64”, referenced from: _ckFileList2::addDirNonRecursive2(int, FileMatchingSpec&, ExtPtrArrayXs&, ProgressMonitor*, LogBase&) in libchilkatIos.a(fileList.o) _ckFindFile::advancePositionLinux(char const*, LogBase&) in libchilkatIos.a(fileList.o) “_opendir$INODE64”, referenced from: _ckFindFile::ffOpenDir2(XString&, LogBase&) in libchilkatIos.a(fileList.o) _ckFileList2::addDirNonRecursive2(int, FileMatchingSpec&, ExtPtrArrayXs&, ProgressMonitor*, LogBase&) in libchilkatIos.a(fileList.o) ld: symbol(s) not found for […]

Chilkat v9.5.0.80 Release Notes

August 9, 2019 in release notes

The previous version release notes: Chilkat v9.5.0.79 Release NotesThe next version release notes: Chilkat v9.5.0.82 Release Notes Chilkat v9.5.0.80 Release Notes 9-Aug-2019 Apple WatchOS: Added the static library for the arm64_32 architecture.  9-Aug-2019 iOS: Added an “iPad Apps for Mac” build.   This is a new set of Chilkat iOS libs built with Xcode 11.0 […]