Chapter 8. Rebuilding the EDW executable files

Table of Contents

1. When and why you should rebuild EDW
2. Building the EDW binaries
2.1. Dependencies: installing CBLib
2.2. Required EDW binaries
2.3. Optional EDW binaries: Addins
2.4. Updating the system path
3. Building the stand-alone executables
3.1. Selecting the features you want
3.2. Adding your own extensions

EDW makes use of a number of libraries, either made in Ethea or coming from third parties. Some of these libraries are required to successfully build and run EDW, some are only required to activate particular features. This chapter gives instructions about how to properly configure a Delphi system to successfully build EDW.

Note

Currently EDW can be built with Delphi 7 (Professional, Enterprise or Architect), BDS 2006 (Delphi Win32 personality only) and Turbo Delphi Professional for Win32. You can successfully build EDW with Turbo Delphi Explorer as well, but due to limitations in that environment, you won't be able to work with some forms at design time.

We will consider making EDW available for other versions of Delphi, other platforms (like .NET) and other languages if there is enough demand for it.