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kaare
Delphi Developer |
bde onto {*word*269} machine2005-08-29 01:04:44 PM off-topic18 Hi, I'm trying to install my bde-based app onto a user's machine. In the past I would send the user an install program for my app, and borland's install program for bde. The user would run both, and then with a little tweaking of bdeadmin, it would all work. But now the bde that you can download from borland (info.borland.com/devsupport/bde/) claims it won't install unless you already have an older bde installed. So what do you do on a clean machine?? I've read bdedeploy.txt, but find it hard to believe I have to do all this, plus switch to a supported installer. I've seen suggestions to use ibinstall.defined.net to install bde 5.2 but it's not clear if it will work on a bde-free machine. And I don't have a bde-free machine here to test, since each of mine already has a borland dev environment (d5, d2005, cppb5) which already has bde installed. This must be simpler than it seems. -kc |