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.  […]

C++ Builder 2007: Unresolved external ‘__fseeki64’

September 12, 2019 in Uncategorized

Question: I work with C++ Builder There are no problems with chilkatLib in IDE version XE8 but I still have some code in C++ Builder 2007 Is it possible to solve this case somehow: [ilink32 Error] Error: Unresolved external ‘__fseeki64’ referenced from LIB-WIN32\CHILKAT_CLASSIC_WIN32.LIB|ChilkatHandle ? Answer: The Chilkat static library for C++ Builder not intended for […]

Chilkat C++ Libraries available for C++ Builder

May 11, 2011 in Uncategorized

The Chilkat C++ libraries are now available for Embarcadero® C++ Builder® For the downloads and more information, see:  Chilkat for C++ Builder® “C++Builder” is a registered trademark of Embarcadero Technologies. “Embarcadero” is a registered trademark of Embarcadero Technologies.

Passing Strings to COM/ActiveX in C++ Builder

September 20, 2010 in Uncategorized

In C++ Builder, when passing a string to an ActiveX (COM) function, a BSTR is required. This is different than a NULL-terminated WideString. The correct syntax looks like this: long lSuccess; BSTR bstr = SysAllocString(L”UnlockCode”); spChilkatMHT->UnlockComponent (bstr, &lSuccess); SysFreeString( bstr ); The following is incorrect because a NULL-terminated WideString is passed, and not a BSTR: […]

CodeGear C++ Builder: Passing Strings to COM / ActiveX Methods

June 8, 2010 in Uncategorized

The correct way to pass a string to a COM/ActiveX method is to use “WideString (theString).c_bstr()” because ActiveX controls/components require BSTR’s, and not strings.  BSTR’s are wide strings (Unicode) where the length of the string precedes the string in memory. The C++ Builder code to pass a string to an ActiveX function is as follows: […]