Tool/Help moving Delphi to a new Computer

[Ron L.]

Hi all,

I have an old machine that has a complicated configuration of Delphi 5 with
tons of components on it. Is there any tool that will help me easily move
this configuration to a new machine (I want to host it on a Virtual Machine
on my new workstation) without the need to track all the different versions
of components and do manual installations of everything?

Thanks,
Ron.
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[Lou Feliz]

I am in the middle of the same thing and would be happy in learning the
same. I transfered my paths and loaded the BPL's in projects\bpl directory
as well as copying all the bpl files in Windows system folder and have had
some success. In the end, I will probalby have to reload them all, but that
will be a rainy day project. I just installed VMWare and plan on doing
the same with virtual W2K for Delphi 5 and Delphi 3. This will enable me to
do minimal support on some old apps that are still in use.

- Lou

"Ron L." <info...@nospam-pireporting.com> wrote in message
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[Jeffrey Miller]

copy files:
c:\Program Files\Borland\Delphi5\*.*
c:\windows\system32\*.bpl
c:\Program Files\Common Files\Borland Shared\*.*

then:
regsvr32 C:\Progra~1\Common~1\Borlan~1\Debugger\bordbk50.dll

[Sendero Software]

Ron,

Here are some things to help.

Old Machine:
-Export registry keys to a reg file
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Borland]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Borland]

New Machine:
-Install Delphi to the new machine
-Copy over the old Delphi to the new install
-Copy all BPL, DCU from the System32 (and any other DIR that may have them)
-Copy Delphi libs over to your new machine (ex: c:\D7libs\<libs>)
or if you have them in your Delphi DIR, the copy above should cover it.
-Import your registry keys

There are some LIBS that may have DLL's in the system32 that may require
a copy or reinstall of the LIB, but that is limited.

You may have a few hiccups, but I think that is about it.

hth,

Regards,
Scott

"Ron L." <info...@nospam-pireporting.com> wrote in message
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[Sendero Software]

Also,

Do not forget about the .DCP

Regards,
Scott.

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[Hannes Danzl[NDD]]

Just export the HKLM and HKCU software/borland/delphi paths, install delphi on
the new machine and import the save reg entries. if you install delphi into a
different directory, you need to adjust the paths in the exported reg files
first.

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Hannes Danzl [NexusDB Developer]
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[Ron L.]

Thanks everyone (did not want to litter the newsgroup with individual thanks
messages). I will give it a try as soon as I have some time.