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Indy 10 fails to install into Delphi 5

I have Delphi 10 Seattle, but I have an older program I wrote in 1995 with Delphi 1. I have since moved it to Delphi 5 — because of all the old 3rd-party components I have used over the years, it would be a total re-write (at least a year) to move it into Delphi 10 Seattle.

One of my secure websites the program uses is soon going to require TLS 1.2. I have Indy 9 installed, and that has worked fine with TLS 1.0, but I understand the only way for TLS 1.2 is to install Indy 10. So far, I have been unsuccessful.

  1. I followed the instructions to the word using the batch file method after removing any instance of Indy 9 (mainly renaming files and directories in case of the worse scenario).
  2. I changed my Environment path to the correct D2 folder Indy's batch file created.
  3. I installed both of the dclIndyCore50 and dclIndyProtocols50 BPL's in the package installer.
  4. They both go in and are checked (enabled). Components were visible.

  5. Then I exit Delphi 5 and either get the following error or the 2 packages are unchecked:

    Error Message

I have tried to move the all the files from the created 'D2' folder to a folder right off of my C drive in case it was some sort of Windows 10 permission problem. I changed environment paths to match and add those packages. Still, Delphi states it can't find the file.

Installation seems simple enough. What could I be doing wrong? I left a post in the Tools section of Embarcadero's forum, but I can see it is not used much. Search the forum and found '0' results. I sure how your Delphi experts can help.

Solution

  • Delphi 5 likes to see BPL related files in his directory.
    (Of course you have to adapt the path specified in this example.)

    Search for the **Indy*.* files, copy all with the same compilation date/time to Delphi5's folder. Look at next picture for the path and files.

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    If you have the files !! (Don't copy now first) Remove the previous assignment to the Component. Press Remove to 

    Indy 10 Core Desig Time -> dclIndyCore50.bpl
Indy 10 Protocols Design Time -> dclIndyProtocols50.bpl

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    Close and Restart Delphi

    Now copy the files to the Delphi folder!

    Install Component Package

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    press Add (look at Image above)
    goto ...\Delphi5\Projects\Bpl\dclIndyCore50.bpl
    next Add ...\Delphi5\Projects\Bpl\dclIndyProtocols50.bpl

    Make sure that the path to Delphi is in Environment

    F:\Programme\Borland\Delphi5\bin;F:\Programme\Borland\Delphi5\Projects\Bpl;

    Close and restart Delphi.