Hi all,

I've managed to fix the problem with IBO42Fd installing into BCB 4
Professional. The gruesome details follow and I hope it proves useful -
there have been a few postings recently re installing in BCB. The process
took about an hour (of my lunch hour !) to get working with many complete
clean outs and re installs. It finally works.

Maybe the following could be cut and pasted into a helpful 'how to install
into BCB.txt' file to go with the releases.

As a comparison, I installed the latest Fd release into Delphi 6 (personal)
in less than 5 minutes - including the time it takes to unzip all the
various files and I didn't have to mess with adding stuff to the package
files to make them install either :o)

My advice - switch to delphi !

BTW, this will read better if you have a non-proportional font in your news
reader/email system ....

Here it comes ......


Installing IBO42_Fd in C++ Builder 4 Professional.
--------------------------------------------------

In the following I refer to $(BCB) which is a macro used to define the
folder where BCB has been installed. On my system this is d:\program
files\borland\cbuilder4 - your system may differ.

Where I refer to VDT or CDT etc, I am 'shorthanding' the package names from
IBO40CDT_C4.BPK etc.

Where I refer to '*DT*' or '*RT*' I mean the packages with 'DT' or 'RT' in
their names.

Where I refer to '*X*' or '*W*' I mean the packages with 'X' or 'W' in their
names. (Tdataset compatible and Web modules).


Preparatory work.
-----------------

Create a new folder under $(BCB)\source\ibobjects\IBO42F
Extract IBO4_4_2_F.zip to the above folder.
Extract IBO4_4_2_Fb.zip to the above overwriting all files as appropriate.
Extract IBO4_4_2_Fc.zip to the above overwriting all files as appropriate.
Extract IBO4_4_2_Fd.zip to the above overwriting all files as appropriate.


Select COMPONENT|INSTALL PACKAGES
highlight and remove all IB Objects packages in the list.
Click OK

Select TOOLS|ENVIRONMENT OPTIONS
click on the LIBRARY tab and add the new IBO42F folder to the library
and
browse paths. Remove previous IBO from these two paths also.
Click OK.

Close C++ Builder.


If you have a previous version of IBO installed, and wish to keep it, use
Explorer to find and move to a safe place all the IBO*.bpl files in
$(BCB)\projects\bpl.

Ditto the IBO*.lib and IBO*.bpi files in $(BCB)\projects\lib.

As a last check, search for and destroy/save any IBO*.bpl files in your
system
folder. I didn't have any on my PC.

We now have a clean system ready to install the latest IBO42 system.


Installation of IBO.
--------------------

Start C++ Builder again.

Select FILE|OPEN PROJECT then select the IBO40_C4.bpg from the new IBO
folder.
If the project manager doesn't open, select VIEW|PROJECT MANAGER.

As I do not use or need the TDataSet compatible part of IBO, I remove all
projects with an 'X' in their name. Right click, remove, and confirm for
each
one.

As I only have BCB Pro and the INET*.dll files are only in the Enterprise
edition, I remove all projects with a 'W' in their name. Right click,
remove,
and confirm for each one.

Select PROJECT|BUILD ALL PROJECTS and the list of packages should start to
compile & link. Unfortunately, you will get errors saying that various *.bpi
files cannot be found. This will only happen on the *RT* runtime packages at
the
top of the list. It happens because you moved the old *.bpi files to get a
clean
system, but you are going to build them anyway - it's a BCB thing !

(If the option BUILD ALL PROJECTS is greyed out, simply double click on one
of the packages in the project manager to open it, then try again. It's a
foible
in BCB.)

For each message, click the CANCEL button, not the OK one. There will be a
few
messages to CANCEL, so just do them all. It's fun isn't it?

Eventually, the messages go away, the packages all build and we
are ready to install. Right click on each *DT* package in turn, and select
install. VDT will fail to install (as will FDT and EDT if you simply carry
on).
The message will be 'Cannot load TRT, it contains unit "ib_process" which is
also in VRT'.

If you get any errors in the linking phase, which state that *.OBJ cannnot
be found, right click on each package name, select OPTIONS, click on the
DIRECTORIES/CONDITIONALS tab and remove the intermediate path. It's
another IDE bug I'm afraid.

Ok the fix for this is simple, but was difficult to figure out. Open the
package
it says it cannot load (TRT) and add the package it says it conflicts with
(VRT)
to the REQUIRES list (right click on REQUIRES and select ADD, click BROWSE
and
locate the VRT.bpi file (in $(BCB)\projects\lib) and OK it. Right click on
the
TRT package and BUILD it again.

Now we can right click VRT and INSTALL it - it works! Continue with the
others
in the order they appear on the list. Eventually, you will have a fully
installed IBO4 system.

Next step is to make sure that your default project is configured to use the
new
IBO system. Select FILE|CLOSE ALL and answer YES to each and every prompt to
save changes to each package.

Select PROJECT|OPTIONS
add $(BCB)\source\ibobjects\ibo42f to the include path and remove
previous IBO path.
add $(BCB)\source\ibobjects\ibo42f to the library path and remove
previous IBO path.
Make sure conditionals are blank.
make sure intermediate output folder is blank. (See below)
final output is set to $(BCB)\projects\bpl (should be the default)
bpi/lib output is set to $(BCB)\projects\lib (again, should be default)
Click OK.

That has set up a default project to use the new IBO stuff by default.
Exit from BCB and restart it - you should still see the IBO tabs on the
component palette - I did not, so I carried out the above step again, and
this
time, I did see them when I restarted.

The need to leave the intermediate output path blank is required because the
IDE will sometimes
fail to read an OBJ file from the intermediate folder when linking. The
file(s) are there and can
be read, the linker just doesn't see them.



Hope this helps.

Norman Dunbar (Norman@...)
21/11/2001.

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Norman Dunbar
Database/Unix administrator
Lynx Financial Systems Ltd.
mailto:Norman.Dunbar@...
Tel: 0113 289 6265
Fax: 0113 289 3146
URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Norman Dunbar [mailto:norman.dunbar@...]
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 8:52 AM
To: 'IBObjects@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: RE: [IBO] IBO and BCB4 - Install Problems


Hi Lester,

I've got the same problems with IBO42_fd as Eric is having - same messages,
same problems (plus a couple of other which I fixed) but I'm working on it
and documenting what I've done.

Hopefully I'll be able to post a solution to the problem.

Regards,
Norman.

PS. I'm doing a build on each, not a build all.

-------------------------------------
Norman Dunbar
Database/Unix administrator
Lynx Financial Systems Ltd.
mailto:Norman.Dunbar@...
Tel: 0113 289 6265
Fax: 0113 289 3146
URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com
-------------------------------------


-----Original Message-----
From: lester@... [mailto:lester@...]
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 8:04 AM
To: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [IBO] IBO and BCB4 - Install Problems


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>> Anybody else having trouble with Builder4? and I will run it
>> up abd check.

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