Compiling with Delphi 2009 from a command line under Windows Vista 64-bit

Question

Has anyone succeeded to compile a Win32 GUI app with the command line dcc32.exe compiler, under 64-bit Windows Vista, without installing Delphi 2009? On our system it fails, with a message that the DFM files contain unknown 16-bit resources. This is usually an indication that the DFM files cannot be read. It works perfectly on all 32-bit Vista and Windows XPs, that we tried.

I am asking, because we want to ensure that we can rebuild our current exe files later, if needed, so even if we all switch to 64-bit OSes in the future, we want to be able to rebuild the old 2009 versions.

Answer 1

Adding lnkdfm120.dll solved the problem.

Answer 2

With Delphi 2009 you should use msbuild to commandline compile your projects (msbuild YourProject.dproj). Be sure to do this from the RAD Studio commandprompt. This ensures some environment variables are set. Does this solve your problem?

Answer 3

Yes, we are performing console builds via dcc32 through nant in both Vista 64-bit and Windows 2008 64-bit. You may have to deal with some path issues the (X86) if you installed to the default location (we do not to remove these types of dependencies).