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Archive for June, 2016

Built-in Delphi XE6, XE7 and XE8 Fast Reports have issue “F2051 Unit fs_iinterpreter was compiled with a different version of fs_isysrtti.TfsSysFunctions”

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/30

I’ve seen this compiler error in Delphi XE8 and others in Delphi XE6 and XE7 using a project depending on the built-in FastReports:

F2051 Unit fs_iinterpreter was compiled with a different version of fs_isysrtti.TfsSysFunctions

This will probably fail in more recent versions as well.

The easiest workaround is this:

  • Fast Report XE6 (4.15.10)
  • Fast Report XE7 (Version 5.1.5)
  • Fast Report XE8 (Version 5.2)

The problem could be solved with help of technical support (Paul Gursky).

The solution is to remove all pas files from:

  • LibD20 (XE6)
  • LibD21 (XE7)
  • LibD22 (XE8)
  • LibD22x64 (XE8)

The above is paraphrased from Fast Reports forum > Fatal Error F2051 when compiling under Delphi XE6 and XE7

The core of the problem is that Fast Reports stores .dcu/.hpp/.pas files in the same directory whereas Delphi itself stores the .dcu/.hpp/.o files in one directory (actually usually in debug and release directories for each supported platform like win32, win64, etc).

Note: the built-in Fast Reports limits a few features, for instance export to Excel is not supported.

–jeroen

Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE6, Delphi XE7, Delphi XE8, Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

A few more T-Shirt quotes: Trying to add a feature, The Internet is Broken, etc

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/30

Still funy: Trying to add a feature.

Done vs Progress.

Done vs Progress graph

Done vs Progress graph

Internet Is broken So I’m Outside Today T-shirts

–jeroen

 

Posted in About, Agile, Comics, Development, Fun, Geeky, Personal, Quotes, Software Development, T-Shirt quotes | Leave a Comment »

An interesting power/tech thing about solar power and batteries

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/29

This is a small discussion of about 1 year old on G+ An interesting power/tech thing….

It serves as a reminder to myself: how far is the gigafactory and when will battery prices really drop.

–jeroen

Posted in LifeHacker, Power User | Leave a Comment »

csc.exe: prevent “does not contain a static ‘Main’ method suitable for an entry point”, use /target:library

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/29

Every once in a while I do Command-line Building With csc.exe.

When building libraries, it throws this error:

The reason is that by default it wants to build a program.

Change this default by adding the /target:library parameter.

–jeroen

via: c# – Program does not contain a static ‘Main’ method suitable for an entry point – Stack Overflow.

Posted in .NET, .NET 1.x, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, Development, Software Development, Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 2002, Visual Studio 2003, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio 2014, Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »

Storing binaries in your gists

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/28

At first you’d think that gists can only hold text files. That’s not true, and I hinted to this last week in Hosting an HTML gist containing JavaScript.

As gists are git repositories, you can put any file in it through git, even binary files, though the gist UI nor a lot of the tools – including gist(1) – support uploading binary files in a gist.

This post – though old, so the screenshots are not current any more, but the commands still are current – explains how to clone the gist and add binaries (in this case images): How To Upload Image / Binary File to Gist | Hanxue and IT

This is for instance how I created a gist containing openssl Darwin binaries to help solve https://github.com/drwetter/testssl.sh/issues/362.

–jeroen

Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, gist, git, GitHub, Source Code Management | Leave a Comment »

Batch file to run the most recent vsvars32.bat

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/28

The below batch file finds and runs the latest vsvars32.bat on a system.

vsvars32.bat initializes the path and other environment variables to run Visual Studio and command-line tools (like csc.exe, xsd.exe, editbin.exe).

The batch file employs a few tricks from:

  :: Run the most recent vsvars32.bat

  :: test these environment variables that have 110 or 120 in them (future enhancements: support more Visual Studio versions):
  :: Visual Studio .NET 2002: VS70COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\Common7\Tools\
  :: Visual Studio .NET 2003: VS71COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Common7\Tools\
  :: Visual Studio 2005: VS80COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\Tools\
  :: Visual Studio 2008: VS90COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\Tools\
  :: Visual Studio 2010: VS100COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\Tools\
  :: Visual Studio 2012: VS110COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\Tools\
  :: Visual Studio 2013: VS120COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\Tools\
  :: VS130COMNTOOLS was skipped: http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1215607-visual-studio-13-to-be-skipped-vnext-to-be-v14/
  :: Visual Studio 2015: VS130COMNTOOLS=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\Tools\
  :: They contain `vsvars32.bat` which will update the `PATH` so it includes where `xsd.exe`, `csc.exe`, `editbin.exe` and others reside
  :: Different examples: https://github.com/noop-dev/c-cgdk/blob/master/compile-vscpp.bat
  :: and https://code.google.com/p/xvid4psp/source/browse/trunk/bin/4Gb+patcher.bat
  :: or give it a go for any version: http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/ptexternal/src/ptII/ptolemy/actor/lib/fmi/fmus/template/sources/build_fmu.bat
  setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
  :: delayed expansion allows for the exclamation marks
  :: see http://ss64.com/nt/delayedexpansion.html
  :: see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22857407/windows-batch-how-to-assign-variable-with-dynamic-name
  for %%v in (70 71 80 90 100 110 120 130) do if not [!VS%%vCOMNTOOLS!]==[] set VSCOMNTOOLS=!VS%%vCOMNTOOLS!
  :: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28682268/assign-variables-past-endlocal-in-a-loop
  endlocal & call :do call "%VSCOMNTOOLS%vsvars32.bat"
  goto :eof

:do
  echo %*
  %*
  goto :eof

–jeroen

via: Finding the path of xsd.exe from your Visual Studio Build Events « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.

Posted in .NET, .NET 1.x, .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, .NET 4.5, Development, Software Development, Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 2002, Visual Studio 2003, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio 2014, Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »

Cleaning out gmail large attachments

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/27

I figured that both gmail and photos take up the largest parts of my Google storage, so I did some cleaning.

You can figure out which part of your Google storage is used by email using https://www.google.com/settings/storage

Still people send huge BMP screenshots to me (probably Microsoft will never learn that pasting clipboard screenshots can be done just as well using PNG format?), so I started searching for mails with large attachments that GMail introduced a while ago:

older_than:1y size:10m

This will include mails of 10 megabyte and larger (so size is a minimum size, not an exact size) that are older than one year.

Then I deleted irrelevant mails notifying the people they should have converted their BMP files to PNG as they take up lots of space on their end as well.

Then storage didn’t decrease, as the messages were still in the trash:

in:trash

Luckily from there, you can empty the trash from there.

–jeroen

Posted in GMail, Google, Power User | Leave a Comment »

optional Windows Update “Synaptics driver update for Synaptics Composite USB HID Device” breaks some UltraNav USB keyboards

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/27

About a year ago, I ran into the optional Windows Update “Synaptics driver update for Synaptics Composite USB HID Device”.

It basically breaks the UltraNav/TrackPoint functionality of some USB keyboards like my 31P9304 USB TrackPoint keyboard (also known as SK-8835)

I bumped into this on another system as well, so I was glad I found this on an asian site: 联想ThinkPad|ThinkCentre|ThinkStation服务与驱动下载常见问题.

Below is the English translation of which the most important is the workaround: Install the Windows Vista driver from the Lenovo support page.
http://www.lenovo.com/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-66917

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, ThinkPad, UltraNav keyboards | Leave a Comment »

Local Guides Hidden Hotspots Amsterdam

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/24

Add your Hidden Summer Hotspot in Amsterdam and share with other Local Guides. Where to find that small theatre, that cosy restaurant or that hidden museum in remote streets? Created live during the Amsterdam Hotspot Party by Local Guides in the city.

Source: Local Guides Hidden Hotspots Amsterdam

Short: http://g.co/hiddenAmsterdam

–jeroen

Posted in Google, GoogleMaps, LifeHacker, Local Guides, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Embarcadero closing down their Spanish office

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/24

Embarcadero closes down their spanish R&D office putting some 80 people on the street and diminishing the total Delphi R&D team.

Former Chief Scientist Allen Bauer commented:

The Spain office had taken on most of the IDE, Delphi RTL, GetIT, Installer, some DB, Bluetooth components, IoT, QA, and other miscellaneous tasks. They were by-far the largest single group working on RAD Studio. They were all a wonderful, dedicated, excited group of folks. They were eager to learn and truly enjoyed their jobs. I am deeply saddened by this development.

Source: [WayBackVery bad news!

Related: [WayBackEmbarcadero Discussion Forums: Bad news for Delphi? …

–jeroen

Posted in Delphi, Delphi 10.1 Berlin (BigBen), Development, Software Development | 31 Comments »