RAD Studio 11.1, trying to install Delphi.
I have previous installs of Delphi 10.4 and 10.3. I have an enterprise license.
I am installing on windows 11 Pro, 21H2, Build 22000.652, after running check for updates and a couple of reboots to apply the system patches today, so OS all up to date. This computer was recently upgraded from win 10 to win 11 which may be part of the problem (?).
It freezes here, after downloading the "Core common Files Enterprise features" :
I'm reluctant to uninstall the older Delphis until I know this one will work (I could probably get rid of 10.3...), and my colleagues on win10 seem to have installed ok with these older versions co-existing on their system.
Sophos antivirus was the culprit. I notced in taskmgr that sophos was using a fair amount of cpu and the delphi installer only about about 2%, but its ram was usage slowly increasing, so no doubt if I'd left it long enough (hours) it may have succeeded. Being more impatient, I had our IT temp disable Sophos, and it skipped though it in a matter of minutes.
Thanks,
Chris
Only for register:
if you run install in a user that is not the "Administrator", main user of the computer, this can happen.
To clarify, it is the "Administrator" user and not a user in the Administrators group.
Running with Administrator I had success on the computers that had problems.
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I installed Paros. At first, it worked fine. However, from the second start, Paros will start and automatically turn off after a few seconds. I also tried to reinstall but the installer will automatically turn off. Why is that?
Window 10 64bit
I install 32bit java.
Any particular reason for using Paros? Its not been updated for over 10 years.
You'll be much better off using OWASP ZAP, which was forked from Paros in 2010, is free, open source and is very actively maintained: https://github.com/zaproxy/zaproxy/
I have an old software that uses DirectX 9. It's quite obsolete but there are still people using it.
Win10 does not come with DX9 preinstalled and I want to add it to my installer. So far I see that there's a large (100mb) DX package from Microsoft that contains all the versions and builds of DX9 and 10. (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=2da43d38-db71-4c1b-bc6a-9b6652cd92a3&displaylang=en)
Among the many version, I see, for example, "Jun2010_d3dx9_43_x86.cab" that contains the .dll, .cat and .inf. I'd say that this is sufficient for what I need so I'd add this to my program's installer (inno-setup).
I am a bit outdated on DX and DLLs knowledge. Can someone give some pointers on how to proceed and if it's right installing only one of that dll?
Thanks!
DirectX 9.0c does in fact come with Windows 10. Starting with Windows XP Service Pack 2, the "DirectX End-user Runtime" never installs DirectX on any version of Windows. The only way to update "DirectX" is to install a Service Pack, a Windows Update, or move to a new version of Windows.
See Not So Direct Setup for the full story here.
Your old application, however, likely does rely on some optional side-by-side components like D3DX9, D3DX10, D3DX11, XAudio2_7, XInput1_3, D3DCompile #43, Managed DirectX 1.1, or other thing that is only deployed by the legacy DirectX End-User Runtime. In that case, you should download the latest DXSETUP package (the April 2011 refresh of the end-of-life DirectX SDK June 2010 release on MSDN).
You can then configure a minimal package that will deploy just the DLLs you actually use. For example, if you used the D3DX9 June 2010 DirectX SDK for a 32-bit application, but that's all you needed, you can get away with an install package of just:
dxsetup.exe
dsetup32.dll
dsetup.dll
dxupdate.cab
Jun2010_d3dx9_43_x86.cab
Of course, if your application is old enough to be using a previous version of D3DX9, then you need to figure that out and use the right .cab.
See Where is the DirectX SDK? as well.
I downloaded the blackberry 10 simulator on the Blackberry developer site and ran the installer.
The system requirements tell me to download VMware Fusion 3.1 or later; this requires me to buy a license.
I did manage to get the 30 day free trial, but is anyone aware of a way to test Blackberry 10 for more than 30 days without paying for a license?
Thanks,
Albert.
Try use VMware player, I think it is free for non commercial use.
BB10 emulators on Windows used to need VirtualBox. Recently (between 10 Gold and 10.2 beta) they switched to VMware player.
Makes a lot of sense for Blackberry, (simplify support), sucks if you don't want to pay for a license.
So to answer your question:
Is there a way to test Blackberry 10 for more than 30 days without paying for a license?
No, if you want a supported environment and want to be able to debug/troubleshoot your apps the way the BB team envisioned it.
Yes, or at least Maybe, it used to work on VirtualBox, I'll bet it still does.
Your trial version of VMWare should be able to export VMs to the OVA/OVF format.
VirtualBox is able to import an OVA/OVF VM.
VirtualBox is also able to mount an VMWare hard-drive.
You will have to fiddle with settings of every component, (but if you still have VMware * fusion, you can try to replicate the emulated machine architecture) and I do think you'll lose "Controller.app" connectivity (the small app that allows to simulate sensors).
The VM auto-detection may not work, but the link uses SSH... So if you can ping it, you will be able to debug it.
If it works, consider exporting the VirtualBox VM and sharing it. (or maybe instructions)
We bought Delphi XE to slowly upgrade from Delphi 6.
Delphi 6 is well working in Win7/X64.
I installed two virtual machines to test it (I planned three of them, but Virtual PC is not supports X64 guest OS).
1.) Sun VirtualBox 4.x
2.) VMWARE player latest
The guest OS is Win7/X64. Latest SP's, packs are installed.
I set local "area" settings to "english-usa".
I started the installer as admin.
The phenomenon is:
The InstallAware is starting, the progress bar is access the 100%.
After this a new InstallAware Window is starting, but later it disappeared.
Then nothing happens. Sometimes the Windows say (dialog) that setup is not working, will I reinstall it?
The event log is not containing information about the problem.
I tried to starting "setup.exe" directly with "as admin", but the result is same.
I tried to find the real setup files in "Local Settings/Temp", and starting it directly as admin, but I got same result.
So I'm very disappointment, and puzzled... We bought something that is not installable.
May I can install the XE into VPC/XP Mode; but I'm sure the somebody CAN install this software in Win7/X64... :-(
Can anybody help me, how to continue the installation?
How to "debug"?
Thanks for your help:
dd
It might be a problem with your virtual machine, i have myself issues with VirtualBox.
You also should double check if you dont have a corrupted Iso. Try to download it again to see it works.
I work in a software house that have at least 30 people working with Delphi XE on their Windows 7 machines. None of them ever reported a installation crash.
Another good question: are you executing the setup.exe as administrator?
The solution was if I copy the zip file directly into VM (not download it), and I must set ALL AREA FLAGS to USA.
The language, the area, the format settings - all things!
Then the installer simply working...
Thank you for your help!
Regards:
dd
I just got a new laptop with Windows 7 (32-bit) and I have to install the following things:
SQL Server 2005 (Dev edition)
SQL Server 2008 (Dev edition)
Visual Studio 2008 Prof.
Delphi 2007
Delphi 2010
In addition I need the usual suspects such as Office 2007 etc.
I was thinking of doing it in the order listed above but would like to know if this is the best way.
On my old system I must have done something wrong as I have had lots of problems with broken help files etc. especially in Delphi.
Thanks.
IMHO: You shouldn't!
Instead, install each development enviroment on different virtual machines.
(Eg VMware Workstation)
The disadvantages are minimal. Perhaps some more costs (VMware + additional OS license).
But the advantages are invaluable!
Portability. If you get a new (physical) machine, it is very simple to copy the virtual machines from the old one to the new one. (You can even save the vm's on a USB-stick and run them on different computers).
Snapshots. Before you do any changes in your dev.env. (updating, adding and removing sw) you can take a snapshot of the vm, and roll back to this state at any time! Make sure you've got your documents and source code on the host machine or a server, though. Because everything is rolled back. Every file is restored to the state it had at the time the snapshot were taken.
Forks/branching. If you are working on a new feature, you can create a branch of the dev.env. (via snapshots), and easily switch between the experimantal dev.env and the production dev.env. at any time.
Using snapshots you can maintain multiple (virtual) operating systems without having to buy several OS-licenses. (You can't run these branches of the OS simultaneously, of course).
More testing environments on the same (physical) machine. Different combinations of OS-versions and MS Office-versions etc)
Protection when testing risky code. (Eg deleting files, updating databases, registry changes etc)
Start playing with new sw-versions without messing up the existing dev.env.
Separate customers/projects according to their various needs for different third party tools, database solutions, report solutions etc
I installed Delphi 2010 after Delphi 2007 without any problems.
Just uninstalling gave me some problems (BDE had to be installed again).
My main suggestion would be to download the latest ISO for Delphi 2007 and Delphi 2010.
Don't rely on your installation DVD's if they aren't current. I used to have problems installing Delphi 2007...I bought my copy around the first month it was available...then I downloaded the latest ISO with all the updates and never had problems on Windows 7 Enterprise (32-bit).