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#BORLAND DELPHI 7 PORTABLE HOW TO#
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#BORLAND DELPHI 7 PORTABLE INSTALL#
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#BORLAND DELPHI 7 PORTABLE WINDOWS 8.1#

This is a two-part article, but don't worry: this time both parts are already written before publishing the first one! But I also like to tease a bit, so Part II will only come out in a couple days! That and because I took my notes on a text file while doing things and have to get them into WLW for proper formatting! :) That's something that Thinstall did without a glitch. But the main problem against VAS was it failing a simple test: virtualizing ActiveState's Perl 5.8.8. And if your app (or app combo) somehow has the same exe name in two different folders, then you can't tell them apart in that combo-box. I couldn't find a way to have multiple entry points and even something as simple as selecting the main entry point is painful with an application that has several thousand files as they use a simple non-typing lookup and they display ALL files to be selected. There seem to be some cheaper alternatives, and I even tried Xenocode's Virtual Application Studio (VAS for short) but, even though it has a nice visual interface, it has a few fatal flaws. If you would too, don't forget to bring it to their attention! (Edit: Thinstall is now known as VMWare Project NorthStar) Maybe now that VMWare has bought the company they'll wise up and release a cheaper personal version! I would like one, and have e-mailed them already stating that. I'm feeling better now and will finish work on this as promised, but it most likely won't happen before the next weekend as I have a lot of work stuff to catch up during the week.Įver wanted to carry your development environment with you on a flash memory stick? Well, using Thinstall you can, albeit it comes with a hefty price tag of 5.000 USD. But real-life has a way of messing up one's plans! I have been sick for a few days (an annoying flue that kept me in bed and hardly willing to touch a computer).

#BORLAND DELPHI 7 PORTABLE PDF#

Unfortunately I ran into an internet problem and then changed my mind and decided to split the work and use WinWord to create a PDF file to upload with the whole start to finish process and only keep the "blah-blah" on the post so that you can more easily follow the process without waving through a ton of blah-blah. I'm currently typing Part II into Windows Live Writer, so check back in a couple hours if it's not online yet when you're reading this.

#BORLAND DELPHI 7 PORTABLE INSTALL#

After some research it was solved by downloading installing the English (US) language pack and have that active during the install (Charms, PC Settings etc).įor Windows 10 and HLP : see here.Even though you can do all listed here, there are a few minor ' gotchas' that you should be aware of, so browse through the 2nd part before following this to the letter, especially if you use the command line rather than a graphical tool to delete the folders.

#BORLAND DELPHI 7 PORTABLE WINDOWS 8.1#

Now on Windows 8.1 (64 bit) I got the winhelp installer throwing ‘Incompatible sytem’ errors at me. Search Windows Help program for Windows 7′ or 8 or 8.1 on, currently here install that and you do not need the next trick. Help does not function, a windows pops up telling “winhelp is not supported anymore on this Windows version, go to for a fix”.

#BORLAND DELPHI 7 PORTABLE HOW TO#

Delphi is installed in C:\PROGRAM Files (X86)Įdit December 2014: Windows 8.1 64 bit also runs Delphi 7!Įdit September 2016: Windows 10 also works! See how to get HLP working here. Now Delphi can be used to write programs again.Įdit August 2010: Windows 7 64 bit is also not a problem.

#BORLAND DELPHI 7 PORTABLE FULL#

Give users (and admins if necessary) full access to c:/program files (X86)/delphixxx directory.

On the first tab Clear the Read-only attribute and press Apply for all files including subdirectory.

Open the properties on c:/program files/delphixxx directory.

Windows 7 is a lot more robust, so directories are better protected. So there are access problems, as to be expected. And something about debug options requiring a change. dro in the /program files/delphi directories.

Dont start Delphi 7 as it will complain when starting a project about unable to rename delphi32.$$$ to.Use defaults for the file locations, ignore the incompability warnings. Make sure you run this as administrator, you will need the privs.Of course this package runs fine on Windows XP. The best version to use, is the version that floats around as Delphi 7.2 Second Edition (search a torrent site) which is a trimmed and bugfixed small package. The version I use (since it is the last version close to traditional Windows programming) is version 7. As you can see in this blog, I recently started programming again in Pascal, eh, Delphi Object Pascal.