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Installation Hints

The installation of the SDL Suite is straightforward:

  1. Close the IDE
  2. Start the setup file of the SDL Suite.
  3. Start the IDE again

    For the installation of .NET support (Delphi 2005, BDS 6, Rad Studio 5, Rad Studio 6) you have to perform the following additional steps:
  4. Click on "Component/Installed .NET Components"
  5. Click the tab "Assembly Search Path"
  6. Click on the ellipses button below the list of search paths and selecte the SDL Suite installation path
  7. Click the "Add button"
  8. Click "OK"
  9. Close the IDE and restart it (this step is important, otherwise you'll get all kind of error messages when trying to put a component on a .NET form.

 

Minimum Requirements

Following are the required minimal requirements for the correct installation of the SDL Component Suite. Please be aware of the fact that using older compiler releases without the updates supplied by CodeGear may result in unpredictable behavior of the IDE/Compiler/Linker. In order to find out which compiler version you are using you have to click "Help/About" command of the IDE. We have tested the SDL Component Suite against the following compiler versions:

Compiler Required Version
Delphi 6 6.0 - Build 6.163
Delphi 7 7.0 - Build 4.453
C++Builder 6.0 6.0 - Build 10.157
Delphi 2005 9.0.1882.30396
BDS 6 / Delphi 2006 / C++Builder 2006 10.0.2288.42451 (Update 2)
RAD Studio 2007 / Delphi 2007 / C++Builder 2007 11.0.2804.9245
RAD Studio 2009 / Delphi 2009 / C++Builder 2009 12.0.3170.16989
RAD Studio 2010 / Delphi 2010 / C++Builder 2010 14.0.3513.24210

 

Last Update: 2009-Nov-08