How to install Indy on Delphi 10.3 Rio? - delphi

The help says "You can use GetIt Package Manager to discover and install additional third-party software onto RAD Studio." but Indy is not available in GetIt
I dowloaded newest files from Github. I run the Fullc_Rio.bat file then opened Indy260.groupproj but when compiling I got:
[Fatal Error] Cannot compile package 'IndySystem260' which is currently required by Delphi 10.3.

Indy comes pre-installed in every IDE version, and has been for a very long time.
However, if you want to install a newer version than what Embarcadero ships, you have to first remove the pre-installed version. This is mentioned in Indy's installation notes:
All package names are followed by X0 (where X0 is your Delphi/C++Builder/RAD Studio product version).
...
If Indy 10 is already installed, it needs to be uninstalled first:
Remove the pre-compiled design-time BPL files - dclIndyCoreX0.bpl and dclIndyProtocolsX0.bpl - from the IDE via the "Components > Install Packages" dialog.
Delete all of the existing binaries - IndySystemX0.*, (dcl)IndyCoreX0.*, and (dcl)IndyProtocolsX0.*
Delete any Indy 10 source files, if present.
Be sure to check for files in the IDE's \bin, \lib, and \source folders, \Indy subfolders, and OS system folders.
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You can either:
Use the command-line FULLD#.BAT script that corresponds to your Delphi version.
Open the individual DPK files in the IDE and compile them, in the following order:
IndySystemX0.dpk (in Lib\System)
IndyCoreX0.dpk (in Lib\Core)
IndyProtocolsX0.dpk (in Lib\Protocols)
dclIndyCoreX0.dpk (in Lib\Core)
dclIndyProtocolsX0.dpk (in Lib\Protocols)
...
Refer to the installation notes for full instructions.

Indy is already installed in Rio during the product installation. It's used in parts of the RTL. It's already installed in all versions of Delphi.
If you open a new VCL or FMX application, click on a form to activate the designer, and go to the component palette, and enter TId in the search box, you can find the Indy related component pages in the palette.

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Delphi Jedi components manual installation

I'm using Delphi CE 10.4, and it has the DCC32.exe disabled line compilation.
I'm trying to manually install Jedi components, in the readme of JCL it says that it's needed to open and edit included file to customize options, in my case, source\include\jcld27win32.inc.
I'm starting to learn Delphi, and I didn't understand whats is it is necessary to do in this file, and didn't find videos showing a manual installation.
Someone who already installed this way could help me?
Manual Installation Although it is not recommended, a manual
installation is possible. You will have to manually configure options
for the library. That is done by modifying an included file. For each
tool you want to install the JCL in, repeat the following steps:
Open and edit included file to customize options: ... For Delphi 10.4 and C++Builder 10.4 Win32: source\include\jcld27win32.inc ...
In the IDE, open and compile package Jcl.dpk (or Jcl.bpk for C++Builder) located in a subdirectory of the "packages" directory
matching your version of the IDE. This package doesn't have to be
installed since it doesn't provide any components.
If you want to install experts, open package JclBaseExpert.dpk and compile it, then you can install all the experts you want (packages
are located in the same directory).

Orpheus won't install in Delphi XE8

I'm trying to install the Orpheus library in Delphi XE8. I added the source path to the library path, and successfully compiled the run-time package (OrpheusDR.dpk). But when I try to install the design-time package (OrpheusDD.dpk) Delphi hangs immediately.
Is there a workaround (like patching certain files) to get the package installed after all?
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Installing JVCL into Delphi 10 Seattle

When trying to install JCL and JVCL into Delphi 10 Seattle using the GetIt Package Manager I get an error:
"Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1 (6.1.7601)
JVCL 3.50.0.0
[Generating: Packages]
Generating packages for D15
Loaded template.dpk
Loaded template.dproj
Loaded template.rc
[Compiling: Packages]
[Compiling: JvCore150.bpl]
Embarcadero Delphi for Win32 compiler version 22.0
Copyright (c) 1983,2010 Embarcadero Technologies, Inc.
C:\Users\Lars\Documents\Embarcadero\Studio\17.0\CatalogRepository\JEDIVisualComponentLibraryJVCL-3.49\Common\jvcl.inc(26) Fatal: F1026 File not found: 'jedi\jedi.inc'
"
JCL version is 2.8.0 that is available via GetIt Package Manager
This question has some resemblance with Error in JCL installation
Uncheck other versions of delphi - The JCL installer defaults to installing into EVERY version of Delphi, not just Delphi 10 Seattle. You have to page by page and uncheck the main root tree item option on each page.
Make sure you don't have any other Jedi stuff linked implicitly into other packages you have installed.
Make sure none of the folders in your Library Path contains another copy (probably older and out of date) of jvcl.inc or jedi.inc files, or any other Jedi JCL or JVCL source or dcu files.
Clean up and remove old/stale DCP/DCU files.
If you want to attempt a manual repair of the package settings, open the package source JvCore.dpk from the packages folder beneath C:\Users\Lars\Documents\Embarcadero\Studio\17.0\CatalogRepository\JEDIVisualComponentLibraryJVCL-3.49\ and try to manually add to the search path the Common and Include folders that contain these two files.
After manual repairs, try manually restarting the installer main executable, probably named Install.bat
If none of those work, then I suspect that the problem is that the Repository folder is a pretty long path name, and the resulting library path name may be too long for something inside the JCL installer or the DCC32 command line compiler. In such a case, I would recommend removing anything you can from your library path before you start, install JCL+JVCL and then restore your library path to its former really-long value.
git clone git://github.com/project-jedi/jvcl.git jvcl
```
This will get you the JVCL repository. You also need the JCL https://github.com/project-jedi/jcl
How to install
Install the JCL https://github.com/project-jedi/jcl
Start the jvcl\install.bat
JCL:
git clone git://github.com/project-jedi/jcl.git jcl
cd jcl
git submodule update --init
```
This will get you the JCL repository and initializes the submodule that contains the jedi.inc and kylix.inc files.
How to install
Start the jcl\install.bat
I succeded to install JCL and JVCL by download a ziped version (JVCL349CompleteJCL27-Build5676.zip) containing both JCL and JCVL from http://jvcl.delphi-jedi.org/
The problem I had seams to relate to multible installations of Delphi and several versions of JCL in the path. If I just installed for DX, it worked fine :)
Use the GetIt Package Manager integrated in your RadStudio IDE to download JCL and JVCL, check this other question.
Finally a headeachless way to install JVCL!
Get JCL and JVCL from the source. Uncheck all no installed compilers.
This works for Embardadero 10.1 Berlin! (24)
(you could download the zip from this place)
https://github.com/project-jedi/jcl
https://github.com/project-jedi/jvcl

Automatic building and installing Delphi components

So, my Delphi component is functional and working, aside few details yet to cover. What I would like is to create a setup (Inno setup) that would automatically install my component into user's Delphi/C++ Builder IDE. I presume I must use delphi command line compiler, but how?
Thank you.
Unfortunately Delphi IDE does not support automated component installation at all. IMO, that is very big problem since component architecture is so important in Delphi.
You can build your package from command line (using MSBuild or DCC) but you cannot install it to IDE. To install your package you should write your own installer that builds you package, copies compiled files and updates Windows registry. Note there is no official documentation how to write such an installer, but you can take Jedi (JVCL) installer code as an example.
There are also 3rd party tools that automate component installation, for example 'lazy builder', that may be interesting to you.
It's not too hard, just messy. You need to compile a BPL for each Delphi version that you want to target and then your installer puts this BPL into a folder of your choosing (often users,public etc). This folder location is then written as a registry key under the relevant Delphi Installed Packages node. Lo when you run Delphi your components appear as if you had used the manual install packages option.

Installing multiple library versions in Delphi / C++Builder

How I can install multiple versions of a library in Delphi or C++Builder? For example, I might want to be able to develop the next version of our app using the current versions of JCL and JVCL while still being able to compile the release version of our app using whatever version of JCL and JVCL were tested for that release.
Using more than one version of a library is easy with libraries like Boost, since those are just header files and library / DLL files that I can put wherever I want, and so I can simply point my project files at the appropriate library directories. However, since libraries like JCL and JVCL try to install themselves into the IDE, I'm not sure how to configure different projects to use different versions without it turning into an unmanageable hack.
(I'm still not entirely familiar with how Delphi manages components and projects - most of my experience is in C++ - so this may be part of my problem.)
We had the same problem, supporting older versions compiled with different versions of the components. Our solution was/is to use the IDE's " -r " command line option. With this switch it is possible to use different library paths and packages (at the same time). The only problem that we encountered with this approach was that some of us regularly tried to open an older project version in the wrong IDE instance.
[Old version 1.0] bds.exe -rVersion1.0
[trunk version ] bds.exe
How to setup those:
Start your IDE as you are used to it.
Install everything you need for "Version 1.0"
Close the IDE
Install all (old) packages (JCL/JVCL/...)
Start regedit.exe
Export the registry key HKCU\Software\CodeGear\BDS\5.0 to a *.reg file
Start nodepad.exe and do a search&replace in the *.reg file for "CodeGear\BDS\5.0" and replace it with "CodeGear\Version1.0\5.0"
Import the *.reg file (by double clicking it in the Windows Explorer)
Create a copy of your RAD Studio 2007 startmenu link and change the command line to include the "-rVersion1.0" key.
Now you have two IDE configurations that are equal. You can now change the IDE that doesn't use the " -r " command option to your trunk version's packages.
When you install all the packages, you must not use the default BPL and DCP directories unless the different package versions use different file names (like the JCL and JVCL do).
CodeGear\BDS\5.0 = Delphi 2007
CodeGear\BDS\6.0 = Delphi 2009
Borland\BDS\4.0 = Delphi 2006
Borland\Delphi\7.0 = Delphi 7

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