IDE Fix Pack 5.96, DDevExtensions, DFMCheck for Delphi 10.2

19 thoughts on “IDE Fix Pack 5.96, DDevExtensions, DFMCheck for Delphi 10.2”

1. Alfred April 9, 2017

   Hi,
   Sorry to hear that 10.2 will be your last update.
   May I ask why you’re not going to renew your subscription?
   It would be very interesting to know, as you’re so valuable to the Delphi community.
   Where Arne you heading instead?
   1. Andreas Hausladen Post authorApril 9, 2017

      I don’t see why I should spend money on software that I don’t use. I don’t use ten of eleven installed Delphi versions. All my personal projects are compiled with XE.
      1. Alex April 11, 2017

         You aren’t you an MVP or Tech Partner? I always thought that you were.
2. Espariat April 9, 2017

   Thanks Andreas for time and work.
   We appreciate your help because like others delphi developpers, we need update of idefixpack, fastdcc. We hope that embarcadero improves compiler and ide in the future.
   Best regards
3. Luis April 10, 2017

   Thanks for everything, Andreas.
   It’s an option open source your projects and let the community help you maintain this?
4. Gary April 10, 2017

   I always thought you were a Borland/Embarcadero insider? And no special conditions, considering your contributions? In which case, deep respects for your analysis skills. And if you’re getting nothing for your efforts, then sad but totally understandable.
5. Donovan April 10, 2017

   As sad as this is, this is just another sign post on the road to Delphi becoming obsolete.

   Pity, because personally, I am, and will always be a huge fan of Delphi.
6. Thomas Speck April 10, 2017

   It’s a great shame for Embarcadero not to support Andy with newest Subscriptions, because his (in his spare time done) work for optimizing and bugfixing the Compilers is a huge benefit for the community and would be a Win-Win-Situation for both Sides. He does the work the Company should do und helps us Developers to gain Speed and Time in large Projects. I would support Andy with anything that helps him to further maintain this glory piece of Software.
7. Alex April 10, 2017

   Hi, Andy.

   Version 5.96 don’t worked with Delphi DX10.1 Update 2 Berlin, after starting Run As Admin showing message:
   IDE Fix Pack Installer/Uninstaller Incorrect RAD Studio installation detected
   HKCU\Software\Embarcadero\BDS\18.0 does not have a valid “RootDir” entry.

   How can I improve the situation ?
   OS Win 7 EE SP1 Rus, now for DX10.1 Update 2 installed IDE Fix Pack 5.95.
8. Pedro April 10, 2017

   I think the Embarcadero community should elect Andreas as MVP.
   Please se the link: https://www.embarcadero.com/embarcadero-mvp-program and
   https://www.embarcadero.com/nominating-an-mvp

   Send an email to the jim.mckeeth@embarcadero.com if you’d like to suggest an amazing Embarcadero community member to become an MVP. Please include links to blogs, and other content you’d like to point out that person has produced.
   1. Andreas Hausladen Post authorApril 10, 2017

      And what would I do with the MVP status or a “free” license?
      1. Pedro April 10, 2017

         You have “Access to shipping Embarcadero products”, no more “update subscription has expired” problems and you don’t need to pay for newer versions.

         And you deserve it.
         1. Andreas Hausladen Post authorApril 10, 2017

            But I wouldn’t use it. If you don’t need/use a product, then it doesn’t matter if it costs you something (what never was a problem) or if you get it for free.
9. Marek April 13, 2017

   Andreas – thank you for the great tool and support.

   The IdeFixPack 5.96 for delphi 10.2 causes my project to not compile. In 10.1 Berlin with FixPack 5.96 it compiles and runs fine, as as with 10.2 without the FixPack.
   I got errors on Build: [dcc32 Fatal Error] F2084 Internal Error: L897; but if not build but Run there is no error and programs builds and runs.
   Also in some configuration got strange: unit Security recursively uses itself,
   and in other case the error is [dcc32 Error] xyz.pas(2164): E2010 Incompatible types: ‘Security.TUserList’ and ‘Security.TUserList’
   on simple assigment to the same type variable.

   The problem I see is when unit Security uses unit BaseSecurity in the interface section, which uses the unit SecurityStorage in the implementation, which uses Security in the interface which is perfectly legal, but with the fixpack produces circular error or type incompatibility with itself.
   1. Andreas Hausladen Post authorApril 13, 2017

      That would mean that there were changes in the compiler that IDE Fix Pack can’t handle. And because I’m not working on IDE Fix Pack for 10.2, I only recompiled the code without a change, this means that IDE Fix Pack would be dead for 10.2.
      1. rgreat April 17, 2017

         You could consider charge some bucks for later updates. 🙂
         1. Andreas Hausladen Post authorApril 17, 2017

            Money can’t buy time and mood.
10. Marek April 13, 2017

    Maybe it can be handled by removing some feature for 10.2? It seems to me that this particular error may be connected with unit caching or particular order of unit processing. I can help testing the case if you mind.
    1. Andreas Hausladen Post authorApril 19, 2017

       The IDE Fix Pack doesn’t change the unit processing order and doesn’t cache units. My guess is that field’s offset in a structure (record) changed. But that is only a wild guess.

       You can disable a patch by setting the global environment variable “IDEFixPack.DisabledPatches” to a semicolon separated list. The items for the list can be found in “Product information” memo in the IDE’s info dialog when you click on the “Compiler Speed Pack x86 5.96 for Delphi 10.2” entry in the “Installed products” listbox. It’s the string in the brackets (without the brackets). But not there are some dependencies that may cause crashes if you disable one patch but not a specific other (and only the source code knows those dependencies).

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