Better — Delphi Decompiler V110194

Rating: 8.5/10
Best free (or low-cost) Delphi decompiler on the market right now. It respects Delphi’s object model, handles Unicode, and produces code that actually feels like a human wrote it.

One wish for v110195: automatic package dependency resolution. But I’ll save that rant for another post. delphi decompiler v110194 better

Have you tried v110194? Found a binary it chokes on? Send it my way — I’m collecting test cases for the next benchmark. Rating: 8

A fintech firm had a Delphi 2006 COM server without documentation. v110194 decompiled the interface maps (TComObject descendants) and rebuilt the .ridl (interface definition) with correct dispIDs. The output was so precise that they recompiled it in Delphi 11 Alexandria without manual edits. Have you tried v110194

| Feature | Older Decompilers | v110194 | |----------------|-----------------------------|-----------------------------| | Unicode string recovery | Partial, often bytes | Full, with literals | | VMT reconstruction | Heuristic, fragile | Graph-based, recursive | | DFM extraction | Raw resource dump | Property-setter inferred | | 64-bit support | Broken or missing | Full (Delphi 10.3+ tested) | | Package (BPL) decompilation | None | Working (cross-unit refs) | | Output compilable code | Rarely | Often (with minor fixes) |

Most free decompilers still struggle with Unicode string formats and the new TControl vtable layouts. v110194 explicitly added signatures for: