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Adrian Roman

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Oct 14, 2000, 3:00:00 AM10/14/00
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Hi,

Env: NT 4.0, SP6, IE 5.5.

My CBuilder 5 Pro (Update1 applied) suddenly started to not be able to link
the projects. It gives message like this: [Linker Error] Could not load
rlink32.dll. The path to BCB bin directory is in the PATH env var, so bcb
should be able to find it.
If I generate a makefile and compile from command line, it is able to link
it...
Help!

Adrian Roman

Jerry Bloomfield (TeamB)

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Oct 14, 2000, 3:00:00 AM10/14/00
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On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 13:47:53 +0200, "Adrian Roman" <aro...@rdsor.ro> wrote:

>My CBuilder 5 Pro (Update1 applied) suddenly started to not be able to link
>the projects. It gives message like this: [Linker Error] Could not load
>rlink32.dll. The path to BCB bin directory is in the PATH env var, so bcb
>should be able to find it.
>If I generate a makefile and compile from command line, it is able to link
>it...

Do you have multiple copies of that file on your system? I seem to recall
reading that someone was having problems with BCB v5 after applying the
[first] patch because the patch updates files in their CBuilder\Bin
directory but left copy in the Windows\System32 directory alone, so now
they had a versioning problem which broke things at compile time. It is
possible that you may be encountering a similar problem...

Jerry Bloomfield (TeamB)
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Adrian Roman

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Oct 15, 2000, 3:00:00 AM10/15/00
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I also have a file with that name in the Delphi/bin directory and in
BCB5/bin directory. There is no such file in Windows/System32.
What is interesting is that I can link from command line without problems.

Adrian Roman

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Jerry Bloomfield (TeamB)

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Oct 15, 2000, 3:00:00 AM10/15/00
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On Sun, 15 Oct 2000 10:23:43 +0200, "Adrian Roman" <aro...@rdsor.ro> wrote:

>I also have a file with that name in the Delphi/bin directory and in
>BCB5/bin directory. There is no such file in Windows/System32.
>What is interesting is that I can link from command line without problems.

OK, which directory (C++Builder or Delphi) comes first in the path if you
open a command prompt and look at the PATH variable? After looking at
that, take a look at the registry settings for your C++Builder application
to see what it's path settings are.

You may still have a versioning issue with different versions of the file
in different directories. The command prompt will pick the file based on
the PATH environment variable. The GUI (IDE) will pick a file based on
"APP PATH" settings for that application in the registry, which could lead
your computer to loading different files based on how it is loaded...

Adrian Roman

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Oct 16, 2000, 3:00:00 AM10/16/00
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Well, what I did until now, with the same results, was:
1. I renamed all the others rlink32.dll on my computer, to be sure bcb will
not pick one randomly.
2. I even copied the rlink32.dll in WINNT/System32 directory, with the hope
that bcb will found it there. The same result...
3. Tried to use the old version of rlink32.dll.

Adrian Roman

Adrian Roman

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Oct 16, 2000, 3:00:00 AM10/16/00
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Oh, and I forgot, only BCB is in the PATH var, BC5 and Delphi aren't.

Adrian Roman

"Jerry Bloomfield (TeamB)" <Jers...@wwa.com> wrote in message

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> On Sun, 15 Oct 2000 10:23:43 +0200, "Adrian Roman" <aro...@rdsor.ro>
wrote:
>
> >I also have a file with that name in the Delphi/bin directory and in
> >BCB5/bin directory. There is no such file in Windows/System32.
> >What is interesting is that I can link from command line without
problems.
>
> OK, which directory (C++Builder or Delphi) comes first in the path if you
> open a command prompt and look at the PATH variable? After looking at
> that, take a look at the registry settings for your C++Builder
application
> to see what it's path settings are.
>

Adrian Roman

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Oct 16, 2000, 3:00:00 AM10/16/00
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Finally I found out the reason. It's really odd. It seems that was Windows
NT fault (of course :-) ).
I checked the disks and it seems that the BCB/bin directory was a little
damaged. I guess some directory entries. Enough to make bcb stop linking.
Strange!
Now it works...

Adrian Roman

"Adrian Roman" <aro...@rdsor.ro> wrote in message news:39e8375f_2@dnews...


> Hi,
>
> Env: NT 4.0, SP6, IE 5.5.
>

> My CBuilder 5 Pro (Update1 applied) suddenly started to not be able to
link
> the projects. It gives message like this: [Linker Error] Could not load
> rlink32.dll. The path to BCB bin directory is in the PATH env var, so bcb
> should be able to find it.
> If I generate a makefile and compile from command line, it is able to link
> it...

> Help!
>
> Adrian Roman
>
>

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