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ajohnson2020
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10 years ago

No external TDS file for 64 bit in Delphi XE2?

We're starting to move our Windows application to 64 bit support, but when this configuration is selected in the project our Delphi XE2 compiler disables the 'Place debug information in separate TDS file' option and says it is only available for 32 bit.

We can run with internal debug information for a while, but does anyone know if a later Delphi edition allows external TDS files again?  Or is there a workaround?



Thanks.



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    ajohnson2020
    Contributor
    10 years ago
    Hi Alex,



    We did end up using StripTDS to extract the debug information.  I don't know why Delphi removed this capability for x64, it seems like a step back to me, but StripTDS seems to work and TestComplete can see the debug data now.  We're still in early testing stages so we'll see how it goes.



    Thanks!

    Allen
  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    Champion Level 3
    10 years ago
    Hi Allen,



    TestComplete installs StripTDS utility (see TC help for more details) into its Bin folder, but I did not try it with 64-bit binaries and far not sure if it works for them...
  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    Champion Level 3
    10 years ago
    Hi Allen,



    Thank you for the update. Good to know that StripTDS works for 64-bit binaries as well.