I have a Delphi application which produces the error message 'Error
reading symbol file' as I load it into the IDE. Has anyone else
encountered this, and how did you resolve it?

By the way, I'm running Delphi 2.0, and the application was originally
created under Delphi 1.0. I can sucessfully compile it under 2.0.

Thanks in advance, Simon.

I've seen this message a couple of times.
When I take projects from the computer at the office to the computer
at home; wich have different dir structures, I get that error.
I think that building up all files solves it.

I've only worked with Delphi 1.0...

Best regards

Diogo Assuncao
d...@ip.pt

In <4mjb71$...@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> s...@primenet.com (Simon

Simon

I've run across this a lot in D1, generally after a major crash or
unexplained error which has caused me to throw up my hands in disgust
and delete all of the Delphi created files from my application
directory.  (I.e., I erase the .exe and .dcu files and those with a '~'
in them but keep the .pas and .dfm's.)  Then I re-enter Delphi and try
again.

Well one of the files that gets erased in the process apparently has
something to do with the symbol table.  In any case, I just click on
'OK' in the dialog message warning about the error and recompile the
program.  I've never had any problem as a result.

By the way, this has also occured when I have moved code from one
machine to another when the target machine has an older version of the
code.  Again I just recompile (on the target machine) and it works
fine.  Hope this helps.

Dave

bor...@ix.netcom.com(David and Ann Borger ) wrote:

Thanks Dave, that worked well. I had tried Build All, but hadn't
thought to get rid of the old .dcu , .exe files first.

Thanks again,

Simon.