Delphi 10.3.3 Install Problems – can’t build w/Raize controls on form

[Ian Harac]

I am upgrading to Delphi 10.3.3 from 10.1. Every third party tool has been giving me grief, and, sadly, Konopka/Raize is no exception.

I have read several of the threads in this forum regarding 10.3 issues, and tried their fixes (including doing the rebuild/recompile from the command line using !Build_RC6) and nada.

I’ve uninstalled/reinstalled via GetIt, made sure I was running as admin.

I’ve verified the paths for the library point to the correct directories. (C:\Users\Public\Documents\Embarcadero\Studio\20.0\CatalogRepository\KonopkaControls-260-6.2.3\Lib\RX10.3\Win32 and C:\Users\Public\Documents\Embarcadero\Studio\20.0\CatalogRepository\KonopkaControls-260-6.2.3\Lib\RX10.3\Win64), that these directories exist, that they have files in them, that everyone seems to have read/write permissions.

I’m at the end of my (short) list of tricks and techniques, so, I ask for help.

The controls are in the palette.

If I drop them on the form, the expected unit is added to the “uses” clause.

And that’s where it breaks; it immediately gets the Red Squiggly Underline of Doom, and when I do a build, gives me a message such as ” F2063 Could not compile used unit ‘RzButton'”.

I’ve checked every other relevant setting I can think of. I’ve compared, as much as possible, to the 10.1 install (but there, Raize is in the Program Files directory and was installed via installer, I believe.)

Any ideas?

[Ray Konopka]

Hi Ian,

I suspect that the root cause of the problem may lie in how you have 10.3 configured. I have 10.3.3 installed and am using the KSVC (installed via GetIt) without any of the problems that you are reported. Also, the fact that you have also been having issues with other libraries makes me believe there might be something wrong in the IDE config.

When you posted “If I drop them on the form…”, as this form part of an existing project? Or a brand new VCL project?

The F2063 compiler error usually means that you have a directory on your Library Search path that already has *.dcu files for the referenced units, but they were built with an old version of Delphi. So, I would check all the directories on your Library Search Path and see if there are some Rz*.dcu files located on any of them. I would also check the directories of the project you are trying to compile. If you find any Rz*.dcu, I suspect that these were added by the compiler. Normally, this should not happen, but it would happen if you added the Raize Components Source directory to your project at some point so the component units would get rebuilt by the compiler.

Hope this helps,
Ray

[Ian Harac]

Thank you for the prompt reply.

I just got back into work and will try what you suggested, and let you know one way or the other.

By “drop them on the form”, I meant, I tried w/two existing projects, one which had Konopka controls, one which did not. I wanted to see if the controls in the palette would let me set their properties in the design view (yes), and if they added the units to the USES clause (also yes).

I will test w/a new project to get an additional data point.

A problem w/older DCUs still on some path seems possible. Our projects have moved from Delphi 6 to 8 to 10.1 to 10.3 since I’ve worked here, and I believe began in Delphi 3 before I started. There’s a lot of old kruft that’s been copied forward. (A complete cleanup and fresh start is not an option, sadly, for some reasons that are good and some that aren’t so good, but that’s the way it is.)

[Ian Harac]

Just to let you know, after vigorously comparing lots and lots of paths and settings, I found a path in 10.3 that was pointing to the 10.1 install, which I guess had higher priority than the correct paths. Fixing that resolved the issue. So you definitely pointed me in the right direction. Thank you.

And in the off chance it’s useful to anyone else, the “Carbon Black” antiviral software causes a spectacular crash with the 32-bit debugger in 10.3 if bds.exe is not whitelisted. No relation to Konopka, but tracking that down — it’s very quiet about it, I dug it out of the Windows Event Viewer — took me a while, hence my delay in acknowledging your assistance.

[Ray Konopka]

Hi Ian,

Glad to hear you resolved the issue. Thanks for sharing the info regarding the AntiVirus software.

Ray

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