I ported ORT into Pascal ( FreePascal and Delphi ) and it works like a charm!

[hshatti]

Hi, i just loved working with ONNX Runtime and had a thought of porting it into Object Pascal/Lazarus or Delphi and making it available for these old but gold languages for fun, it wasn't a short journey though but it finally worked.

Why? I had these goals in mind:

• Fun! 😃
• Modern pascal environment has the reputation of being powerful enough to develop desktop applications with a built-in support for almost any sort of known databases, along side with built-in image manipulation libraries and other native libraries, so bringing ORT into it would be a perfect accessory.
• Making use of the rich and powerful GUI that freepascal offers ( or the modern FMX GUI provided by Delphi ) and incorporate ORT with it out of the box.
• Single executable that can be deployed with onnxruntime libraries (minimal ORT release for CPU comes with 2 files or may be it's not even required since they come shipped with modern windows releases AFAIK) no other dependencies are needed,

I made an example that can run on single executable (windows or MacOS)
if anyone interested or any of the ORT team find it a useful contribution please feel free to check or review and let me know, or to incorporate the new languages implementation to the family of languages that ORT can now support.

The repository :

https://github.com/hshatti/TONNXRuntime

Contributions, review and criticism are most welcome.
Cheers
H

[VasProgger]

cool! thanks!