If, like Delphi XE and higher, your organise your projects to use output directories like ...Bin\Delphi####\$(Platform)\$(Config), and back-port to Delphi 2010, then
- The Delphi 2010 compiler puts the files in almost the right directory
...\Bin\Delphi2010\Debug\Spring.Tests.exe - The Delphi 2010 debugger barfs with this message:
--------------------------- Error --------------------------- Could not find program, '...\Bin\Delphi2010\%Platform%\%Config%\Spring.Tests.exe'. --------------------------- OK ---------------------------
So you might think that it is enough to hard code this in your base configuration:
- Platform=Win32
Well no, the debugger still shows the above error message. Despite the compiler putting it in the correct directory: ...\Bin\Delphi2010\Win32\Debug\Spring.Tests.exe
So there are 3 configurations for the output directory:
- Base (for documentation purposes only)
Bin\Delphi2010\$(platform)\$(config)
- Debug
Bin\Delphi2010\Win32\Debug
- Release
Bin\Delphi2010\Win32\Release
You might think: why is Spring4D still supporting Delphi 2010?
Two simple reasons:
- many people still use it
- it produces relatively small executables, which still is important in some situations like producing our own Build tool and keeping binary versions of that in our version control system
–jeroen
