Thanks, Salvatore!
That really explains it.

Chuck

> Chuck,
>
> the Delphi IDE is a 32 bit application, so design time packages must be 32 bit. In short you have to:
>
> - Compile all run-time packages at 32 bit
> - Compile all design-time packages at 32 bit
> - Install all 32 bit design-time packages in the IDE
> - Compile all run-time packages ONLY at 64 bit
>
> So don't compile design-time packages at 64 bit, it's useless. Of course all bpl's, dcu's and dcp's must go in their
> respective folders, depending on platform and configuration (this is my directory structure):
>
> lib
> |
> |___d16 (or d2012)
> |
> |____win32
> | |____release
> | |____debug
> |
> |____win64
> |____release
> |____debug
>
> All dcu's go in debug or release directory plus:
>
> - Put debug bpl and dcp in the debug directory
> - Put release dcp in the release directory
> - Put release bpl in %(BDSCOMMONDIR)\bpl and %(BDSCOMMONDIR)\bpl\Win64
>
> I'm finishing a batch file that does all that automatically from the command line (except installing in the IDE). It
> must be in the IBO root folder along with another bunch of text files that it needs.
>
> HTH
>
> Regards
> Salvatore
>
>
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