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Chau Chee Yang
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 Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 8:27 pm Post subject: Is there a limit on the Delphi runtime package file size |
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Hi,
I used some third party components. In order to reduce the number of
files in deployment stage, I try to re-package all runtime packages into
a single files.
Everything looks good when I try to package component by component. The
more units I add to .DPK file, the bigger the size of .BPL/.DCP file.
However, when I the size of the .BPL files grow to certain size (> 20M
bytes), the EXE file will raise exception when launched.
I don't know how it happens. Does anyone has clue on this issue?
I am using Windows XP and BDS 2006.
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Best regards,
Chau Chee Yang
E Stream Software Sdn Bhd
URL: www.sql.com.my
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Ottar Holstad
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 8:11 am Post subject: Re: Is there a limit on the Delphi runtime package file size |
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| Quote: | However, when I the size of the .BPL files grow to certain size (> 20M
bytes), the EXE file will raise exception when launched.
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At work we have an application that is deployed to thousands of machines
with a number of runtime packages, of which one is about 26MB. However, at
some points in time this package has exceeded 32MB of dfm-files. The Delphi
6 compiler doesn't like this - it may sometimes compile, sometimes not....
The bug seems to be related to the linker, when it's attaching all those
dfm-files to the bpl. |
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Chau Chee Yang
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| Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:34 pm Post subject: Re: Is there a limit on the Delphi runtime package file size |
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Thanks for sharing your experience. I have done a series of test
against this issue and very sure it is the delphi compiler problem
(either compiler or linker). The compiling and linking process are all
fine. But when I run the .exe file built with the big size runtime
packages, I will encounter "Runtime error 216".
It is fine if there is limit on the size of runtime package, but I just
want to know what actually limits the size? and why?
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Chau Chee Yang
E Stream Software Sdn Bhd
URL: www.sql.com.my
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Ottar Holstad
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:11 am Post subject: Re: Is there a limit on the Delphi runtime package file size |
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| Quote: | It is fine if there is limit on the size of runtime package, but I just
want to know what actually limits the size? and why?
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On rereading my post I realized that I forgot to say that we actually have
had no problems deploying the 26MB runtime package. I think there is a
definitive limit in the linker at 32MB of dfm-files - that is, size of all
dfm-files before compiling. We exceeded 32MB of dfm-files, but solved the
problem by converting all the forms from text-dfm to binary dfm. |
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