[DUG] HELP! Delphi 2010 DCC32.EXE for Trial please?

[David Brennan]

Hi,

 

I know it is the holidays but someone on this list might see me and take
pity. I naively thought I would try out the Delphi 2010 trial while I had a
bit of spare time over the holidays. Installing and activating wasn't
exactly a painless experience but I got there in the end. However worse was
to come because when I came to install the latest Developer Express version
it wouldn't show any packages or component in the IDE. Turned out (after
much messing around) that the "fully functional" (QFT) Delphi 2010 trial
doesn't include a real dcc32.exe. The only work around from the DevExpress
website is to manually build and install all 50 or so DevExpress packages in
the correct order (along with various other manual steps such as moving the
source files around to different directories). Since our own custom packages
also use a dcc32 build script to install I would also need to manually setup
those (although at least there are less of them and I know them better!).

 

I'm talking to Embarcadero support but I'm not hopeful. The idiocy of making
me jump through such hoops to trial their software in the official way makes
my brain hurt. I've already spent 2 hours on the activation woes and
diagnosing the DevExpress problem and I imagine several more to come if I
manually build the packages. Meanwhile presumably a pirated version off the
internet would have none of these obstacles and save me 4-5 hours of messing
around!

 

Anyway, I'll save the full rant for another day. My question is this:


Is anyone able to offlist confidentially send me a zipped and passworded
copy of DCC32.exe from Delphi 2010 (or possibly 2009 although I'm not
confident that would work)? I say zipped and passworded just so it can get
past any spam filters (use a password like "trial" or something and let me
know what it is?)

 

If you can I would be forever grateful. I've only got a few days of holidays
to experiment with and this is all really frustrating.

 

Regards,

David.

 

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