RAVE Report Error "dbrtl160.bpl missing" - delphi

When I run RAVE Reports Designer from an IDE (Delphi XE2) I get this error:
"The program can not start because dbrtl160.bpl missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem"
However, in the Delphi XE2 folder the file dbrtl160.bpl exists.
What is going wrong here?

The file needs to be either in the same folder as your application, or a folder on the system PATH. The IDE uses it from it's own folder, but when your app (or in this case, RAVE) runs it's not in the IDE folder. The IDE usually adds the necessary RAVE folder to the PATH during installation, but if you've installed a RAVE update it could have been deleted or changed, or something else you've installed damaged thte PATH statement.
Delphi packages are just special DLLs, and they're loaded by LoadLibrary when your app starts. The rules for finding them are those that LoadLibrary uses, as well. The search order is specified in the Remarks section of the LoadLibrary documentation on MSDN.

if you using x64 windows, you must copy rave files to C:\Program Files\Embarcadero\RAD Studio\8.0\Rave...

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RAD Studio 10.2.3 Jedi JVCL Install Problem

I've uninstalled my RAD Studio 10.2.2 and installed 10.2.3 in my Win10 development VM. Along the way I uninstalled all the previous 3rd-party libs, including the Jedi GetIt packages, and per the instructions got rid of all the old Jedi source and DCP/DCLs. I'm attempting to install them back into 10.2.3 via GetIt. The JCL libs install fine, but when I try to install JVCL, the installation batch file hangs after compiling the installer and the VM comes to its knees. I rebooted, started taskmgr and watched as the batch file ran - it appears to go into a loop creating many instances of msgfmt. I've tried removing it all again, downloading and installing the 3.8 version myself and running the install batch file by itself, same problem; then backing up to the 3.6 version that had installed OK in 10.2.2, and it does the same thing. If I edit the batch file to skip the language-setup section, the batch file completes OK, but trying to re-run the GetIt update causes it to re-download and replace that batch file. :(
The installer does compile before the languages part of the batch file is reached, so I tried running the installer directly. I assume I'm not passing it cmd line info it needs, because it compiles the 64-bit libs fine but chokes immediately on compiling the 32-bit version of JvCore250.bpl with an unspecified compile error.
Anyone else run into this? Is a solution known?
Turns out to ultimately be a pathing problem. When multiple installations of the IDE exist on a machine (e.g. my VM has or previously had D2007, XE2 and 10.1 on it), the PATH environment variable can be too long - edit the PATH in the system to remove the old/stale paths. Then make sure that the library paths in the IDE includes $(BDSLIB)\$(PLATFORM)\release or you'll get "can't find RTL" when building the packages.
For me the problem is generated from the msgfmt.exe of dxgettext.
msgfmt.exe generates multilanguage messages, for a multilanguage support of jvcl installation.
For the specific problem of msgfmt.exe try to see this: dxgettext and Windows 10
I resolved the problem opened the install.bat file in jvcl folder, and I commented (with ::) every line where the msgfmt is executed.
Attention:
If you use getit I suppose you have to open the folder where jvcl is downloaded and search install.bat (I didn't use getit)
Instead I downloaded jvcl directly from github in my component folder, and I did what is written above in that folder.

Delphi 10.3.2 - Cannot resolve unit name System.Classes

Brand new installation of Delphi 10.3.2
Error Insight reports errors 'Cannot resolve unit name' on core RTL and VCL units, like System.Classes
This pollutes the error insight report, and also blocks code completion (control+space) which is a real issue...)
What I have tried so far:
Create a new VCL Form project: Same error, but project compiles without error
Checked that Control+Enter open the source file: ok
Checked that source folders are declared in the Browsing path (general Options)
Added the source folders to the Library path (general Options)
Installed IDE Fix Pack for delphi 10.3
Uninstalled previous delphi versions (XE4 and 10.2)
Cleaned the system PATH variable by removing references to previous delphi installations
I'm out of idea on how to fix this issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated
Edit: When switching to Win64 platform, error insight errors are gone. So I tried to delete the Win32 platform, and re-create it:same errors happen again.
Edit2: I uninstalled and installed Delphi 10.3.2 again: The error is still there...
Here's what I have done to resolve this issue:
declare the bin directory of delphi in the Library path. same for bin64 folder
clean up of runtime packages
install all official patches for delphi 10.3.2 (when installed from iso)
Note that the first install was done with the online installer (so patches were not required)
I believe that the issue came from an incorrect library path, with bin and bin64 directories missing...

Procedure Entry Point invalid in JVCL (jclsysinfo)

I've installed latest Jedi VCL for Delphi (JVCL 3.49) using install.bat (from jcl and jvcl folders respectively), without errors. The problem is when I run Delphi 2010, I get a lot of errors about invalid entry point in jvcl bpls.
entry point invalid #jclsysinfo#jclcheckwinversion$qqrri in JvCore140.pbl
I get this error in all Jv*.bpl files, and always with the same entry point.
I've checked I don't have old jcl/jvcl files or jv*.bpl/jc*.bpl files. I don't know how to fix this problem. Any sugestion?
When compiling packages in Delphi (as the JCL and JVCL do) that require other packages at compiletime the compiler uses the dcp files for the required packages and not the bpl files of those packages.
For example the JvCore.dpk has Jcl and JclVcl in its required clause among some RTL packages. That means when compiling it will take Jcl.dcp and JclVcl.dcp to get the information where the procedures/classes it needs are located in the bpl.
These dcp files are most of the time (unless specified differently - see next paragraph) located in the DCP folder which is right next to the BPL folder.
If the dcp it uses is not compatible to the bpl it finds when loading you will get those errors. Make sure you don't have any old bpl and dcp files anywhere that the compiler may find. In the JCL setup you can specify where it puts those while the JVCL setup puts them into the same directory as the dcu files.
Additionally if you have different Delphi versions installed it can get worse because usually the dcp files don't have a suffix. If the directory it puts those happens to be in the PATH variable wrong versions might be found. However the DCP directory is not put into PATH by the Delphi installation but only the BPL directory.
(While I've been writing this, Stefan Glienke has posted an answer which has a lot more useful info in it, but I'll post it anyway because it's easy to test if you're only interested in one Delphi version)
I'm not sure the following will work for you because I don't have D2010
installed to test it against. You could check it out quite quickly by
trying it using only one .Dpk file in step 4.
Note that I always set the Output paths for BPL,
DCP and DCU files to a Lib2 folder under the Delphi version's install folder.
That way I know where they all are so it's easier to tidy up if something goes
wrong.
I uninstalled the JCL and JVCL and deleted all the JV*.BPL, .DCP and
.DCU files
I ran the JCL install .bat, and ignored all the prompts to add folders to
the system PATH, because my Lib2 folder is already on the PATH.
In the folder for my Delphi version below JVCL\Packages, I edited all the
.Dpk files to use my Lib2 folder for the BPL, DCP and DCU output files. this is
a bit tedious but only needs to be done once and can be made easier by doing it
using a keyboard macro.
Then, using the IDE package tool, compiled and installed all the JVCL .Dpk
files that have "Design" in their names and that I want to install.
They all installed without ther error message you are getting.

JediInstaller will not run

I downlaoded newest verrsion of JVCl which include JCL
As first thing, I try in jcl folder to doubleclick install.bat
It compiles and runs but then throws error:
Program can not start as rtl180.bpl is missing on the computer
I have Delphi 2010 installed here:
D:\DevTools\Embarcadero\RAD Studio\7.0
I have Delphi XE4 installed here:
D:\DevTools\Embarcadero\RAD Studio\11.0
I had many more installed in the past, but some were trials, some no longer work in Windows 10 etc. so I have been removing unwanted Delphi versions. But I have tried removing all traces.
Need to fix "System environment variables - Path" with path to bpls

Default Library Path

Prior to my problem, I attempted to install a component which required me to change my Library - Win32 library path. The installation did not work out so I left it. A few days ago, I ran Delphi to work on my project. I compiled the program but Delphi told me "Unit not found: 'Systems.pas' or binary equivalents (.dcu) so I changed the Library path to: C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\RAD Studio\7.0\lib. I was then able to compile my program but when I clicked a button, none of the code ran!
I went back to check my syntax and everything was correct hence why I was able to compile my program (note: my code and program was left untouched for weeks). I then tried to re-install Delphi (2 times) expecting that the Library Path would fix, but it didn't.
After the failed attempts of trying to restore default settings I did some researched on stackoverflow but I could still not find the answer. Topics I've come across:
Delphi XE : Lost Library path
Delphi can't find System.dcu; what should the default path settings be?
I added the ShowMessage function to test if it worked and it did so I really have no clue what the problem is. However I am still suspecting that my Library Path is incorrect.
What do you guys think the problem could be?
my code
or my IDE library path
Note: current library path = C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\RAD Studio\7.0\lib
Also, how can I fix this problem?
I guess the linked answer should solve you problem. If you need specific data for Delphi 2010, here is the registry file for 64-bit Windows (for 32-bit Windows the registry branch should be [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CodeGear\BDS\7.0\Library]):
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\CodeGear\BDS\7.0\Library]
"Browsing Path"="$(BDS)\\SOURCE\\WIN32\\VCL;$(BDS)\\source\\Win32\\rtl\\common;$(BDS)\\SOURCE\\WIN32\\RTL\\SYS;$(BDS)\\source\\Win32\\rtl\\win;$(BDS)\\SOURCE\\WIN32\\WEBSNAP;$(BDS)\\source\\ToolsAPI;$(BDS)\\SOURCE\\WIN32\\IBX;$(BDS)\\source\\Win32\\Internet;$(BDS)\\SOURCE\\WIN32\\PROPERTY EDITORS;$(BDS)\\source\\Win32\\soap;$(BDS)\\SOURCE\\WIN32\\XML;$(BDS)\\source\\Win32\\db;$(BDS)\\source\\Indy\\Indy10\\Core;$(BDS)\\source\\Indy\\Indy10\\System;$(BDS)\\source\\Indy\\Indy10\\Protocols;$(BDS)\\source\\database;"
"Debug DCU Path"="$(BDS)\\lib\\Debug;$(BDS)\\Lib\\Debug\\Indy10;$(BDS)\\RaveReports\\Lib"
"Language Library Path"="$(BDS)\\lib\\$(LANGDIR);(BDS)\\lib\\$(LANGDIR)\\Indy10"
"Package DCP Output"="$(BDSCOMMONDIR)\\Dcp"
"Package DPL Output"="$(BDSCOMMONDIR)\\Bpl"
"Package Search Path"="$(BDSCOMMONDIR)\\Bpl"
"Translated Debug Library Path"="$(BDS)\\lib\\$(LANGDIR)\\Debug"
"Translated Library Path"="$(BDS)\\lib\\$(LANGDIR)"
"Translated Resource Path"="$(BDS)\\lib\\$(LANGDIR)"
"Search Path"="$(BDS)\\lib;$(BDSUSERDIR)\\Imports;$(BDS)\\Imports;$(BDS)\\Lib\\Indy10;$(BDSCOMMONDIR)\\Dcp;$(BDS)\\include;$(BDS)\\RaveReports\\Lib"
If plain import of the above registry file does not help:
Reboot and try again;
If the problem persists, delete
Software\CodeGear\BDS\7.0 branches from both
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ hives and reinstall
Delphi;
Never run automatic installation procedure for unknown
component packages on your working system.

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