Delphi Build Groups: building all the Configuration/Target permutations of projects in your project group from inside the IDE
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/14
An automated build system for your Delphi applications is gold, and straightforward to setup using the Delphi support for msbuild.
Sometimes however, it is convenient to build any or all Configuration/Target permutations of all your projects from inside the Delphi IDE.
This has been possible since Delphi XE introduced the [Archive.is] Build Groups – RAD Studio XE. It is a really nifty feature which you can activate by clicking on the “people” icon in the project manager: 
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Uwe Raabe has witten an excellent blog post on this a few years ago: [WayBack] Do you know Build Groups? | The Art of Delphi Programming
Since you can add multiple Build Groups, you can select which one contains what Configuration/Target permutations of any number of projects.
This for instance allows you to:
- build all your server projects at once
- only build debug versions of all projects
The Build Groups settings are saved as part of your groupproj settings and are a pretty stable feature.
Two extra tips:
- With lots of projects in a project group, Delphi often runs out of memory. So be sure to apply the DDevExtensions Work around out for running of memory when building multiple projects in Delphi < 10.2.
- Some Delphi versions do not allow you to run an application after you built it using the Build Groups. Press Ctrl-F9 (compile) to reset the Delphi state: after that you can run it again.
–jeroen
Related:
- [WayBack] Building for all platforms using msbuild. – embarcadero.delphi.ide
- [WayBack] msbuild – Delphi XE2 option set nested limit? – Stack Overflow
- [WayBack] Specifying the msbuild configuration for a Delphi project on the commandline – twm’s blog
- [WayBack] delphi – How to Rebuild All Configurations & All Target Platforms in All Projects? – Stack Overflow
- [Archive.is]
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