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Eduardo Jauch wrote:
> Hi!
> How to compile indy 10 to BCB 6?

My experience:

1) Go to Indy's web site.
2) Five pages off the home page, find the installations for Indy10 and 
determine that they only apply to Delphi and make zero sense for BCB.
3) Ponder why the instructions say that they are "for BCB" when they 
obviously aren't.
4) Observe that the link to the "source code" is "not really recommended".
5) Ponder what the difference between "not recommended" and "not really 
recommended" is.
6) See a link to the development snapshot.
7) Ponder why, if "development snapshot" is source code, too, why the 
one link is called "source code" which logically means that the 
"development snapshot" is something other than "source code".
8) Wonder why the links to the "development snapshots" aren't even on 
Indy's own site.
9) Determine that one of the two sites where you can get the 
"development snapshot" doesn't work.
10) Figure out that the FTP link to the one remaining site doesn't work.
11) Download the source from the HTTP link to the one remaining site.
12) Search newsgroups to find out how to install.
13) Figure out that you have to run \Lib\FullC6.bat.
14) Oops, that doesn't work. Search newsgroups again.
15) Figure out that I should have compiled computil.dpr first.
16) Compile computil.dpr.
17) Run \Lib\FullC6.bat again.
18) Wonder why a bunch of files named "null" appear in all of the source 
folders. Since zero explanation is given for them, hope that they don't 
mean something went wrong.
19) Wonder what the messages about not finding *.dcu, *.dcp, and 
compile_run mean. Hope that they don't mean something went wrong.
20) Search for the BPLs. Find them in \C6.
21) Discover that there are no HPPs, OBJs, or LIBs.
22) Search the newsgroups again.
23) Find out that there is a switch for dcc32 (-jph) that outputs OBJs 
and HPPs.
24) Notice that something similar to this switch (-jphn) was used in the 
batch file for Indy9.
25) Wonder why it was not used in the batch file for Indy10.
26) Run "dcc32 /?" and see that "-jph" is not even documented.
27) Decide to try it anyway.
28) Run "dcc32 -jph IndyCore60.dpk".
29) That doesn't work.
30) Figure out that you need to include files in the \System folder.
31) Run "dcc32 -jph -u..\System IndyCore60.dpk".
32) Encounter multiple errors for IdIPAddress.pas (unsupported language 
feature, property of array type) and IdReply.pas (unsatisfied forward or 
external declaration: TIdReply.SetFormattedReply & 
TIdReply.RaiseReplyError).
33) Observe that, apparently because of the above errors, only some HPPs 
generated.
34) Observe that all OBJs were generated.
35) Run "dcc32 -jph IndySystem60.dpk".
36) Observe that all HPPs and OBJs are generated.
37) Start BCB.
38) Add the design-time BPLs to the IDE.
39) Try to add them to a form.
40) Compile and link.
41) Observe that link fails.
42) Manually add OBJs to project.
43) Finally get it to complile.