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Stephan · Guest

Hi guys,

I have raised this issue in a couple of other newsgroups, but since
there doesn't seem to be a technical solution to this (and no Borland or
TeamB member shed some light), I suspect this probably is more of a
topic for this newsgroup.

When creating EXEs and DLLs, I can disable the "version info" feature in
the project options of the IDE, in order to use RC files instead. This
is eminently useful when using larger build processes (including
testing, documentation builds, creating installers, etc.) which are run
via scripts (in my case Makefiles) utilizing dcc32.exe.

But why isn't that permitted for DPKs/BPLs?

Create a new package, go to "Project options", "version info" tab: the
check box "include version information in project" is already checked,
but grayed out. I've tested it with D5 - D7.

The problem is, you can delete RES files and {$R *.res} lines all you
want, as soon as you enter the project options window again and click
"o.k.", even without changing anything, the RES file and the {$R *.res}
lines are back.

In other words, Delphi insists on managing version info for DPKs
exclusively via the IDE (DOF file). This creates problems when dcc32.exe
is used in a bigger picture, since there's not secure way to tell the
IDE to keep its hands off the version info, because it's managed
somewhere else! Again, no such trouble for EXE and DLL creation.

Does anybody know why?

Am I missing something? How do those of you who create BPLs using
dcc32.exe get this under control?

Thanks in advance for any info,

Stephan

Jacob Thurman · Guest

Stephan · Guest

Hi Jacob,

thanks for your reply.