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by kwanbix 197 days ago
If you did it in Delphi it will work no matter what.
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"no matter what" is pushing it.

It was very common for Delphi programs to use stuff that required external DLLs.

Only if you wanted to include database options.
Connectivity to databases was one of Delphi's main selling points.

I think one dude spread the myth of no DLLs in the Twitter thread, lots of people repeated it, and since Delphi 6/7 is not around anymore and it's hard to check, they got away with a slight historical innacuracy.