I have been using DBISam 4.25 for a number of years now and I don't remember having to put the path of the utilities into my Libs directory, this unit was installed with DBISam and when the path is added to Delphi by the installer, it compiles without requiring the utilities or adding a path to the utils.

When I am using 4.41 I notice that this unit is not part of the DBISam Server files anymore but is in fact contained with the utilities now.  For me to compile the server again I have to include the path of the utilities manually for it to find the dcu and compile.

Am I going mad, is this correct?  Just curious I am not dong something wrong.

Thanks
David.

On 8/26/2015 10:37 AM, David wrote:
> I have been using DBISam 4.25 for a number of years now and I don't remember having to put the path of the utilities into my Libs directory, this unit was installed with DBISam and when the path is added to Delphi by the installer, it compiles without requiring the utilities or adding a path to the utils.
> When I am using 4.41 I notice that this unit is not part of the DBISam Server files anymore but is in fact contained with the utilities now.  For me to compile the server again I have to include the path of the utilities manually for it to find the dcu and compile.
> Am I going mad, is this correct?  Just curious I am not dong something wrong.

Not sure about the dbisamut specifically but release notes for 4.26 say
this :

The DBISAM controls that are used in the DBISAM utilities have been
removed from the DBISAM design-time package and must now be installed
manually if you wish to modify the utilities such as the Database System
Utility in the Delphi IDE. The DBISAM controls are located in the
dbisamct.pas unit included with the utility source code, and can be
installed by simply adding the unit to any new or existing package and
re-compiling the package.


Hence i suspect this is also when dbisamut was also moved under
utilities so I'd say its normal what you're seeing.

The 4.25 is also circa 2008 not to mention some 8-9 releases of delphi
so some changes in the packages and paths would be expected.


Raul

David,

<< When I am using 4.41 I notice that this unit is not part of the DBISam Server files anymore but is in fact contained with the utilities now.  For me to compile the server again I have to include the path of the utilities manually for it to find the dcu and compile.

Am I going mad, is this correct?  Just curious I am not dong something wrong. >>

It's correct.  However, I think that I will change this so that the dbisamut unit is included as a source unit, at the very least.  The dbisamut unit got removed along with the dbisamct, when in reality the dbisamut unit is not for *just* the utilities, like the dbisamct unit is.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

David,

<< It's correct.  However, I think that I will change this so that the dbisamut unit is included as a source unit, at the very least.  The dbisamut unit got removed along with the dbisamct, when in reality the dbisamut unit is not for *just* the utilities, like the dbisamct unit is. >>

This is now the case with 4.42 - the utility component source and the design-time/run-time packages for them are included with all products in the \utilcomps directory under the main installation directory.

Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com