Upgrading to FlashFiler 2.10

These instructions describe how to upgrade the Rubicon 2.11a packages that were compiled with FF 2.06 to the new FF 2.10 packages under Delphi 5.  While the details may differ, the basic techniques described here can be applied to other versions of Delphi or C++ Builder, other versions of FF, and other Rubicon drivers.  Steps shown in blue are only required for those packages such as DBISAM and FlashFiler which give each release a unique package name.

First, be sure Rubicon 2.11a and FF 2.10 are installed.  Since Rubicon 2.11a was compiled with FF 2.06, the Rubicon FF drivers will not load correctly when Delphi 5 is started.  There are two ways to upgrade the Rubicon FF drivers: with the Delphi IDE and with the Delphi command line compiler.

Delphi IDE

1. Start Delphi 5
2. If you get an error message about being unable to load rb20f50d.bpl, click 'No' so Delphi does not attempt to load it again next time
3. Click Tools | Environment Options | Library and check that 'BPL output directory' and 'DCP output directory' are blank.  This will force the package files about to be compiled to be placed in \rubicon2\d5 (overwriting the old versions).
4. Open \rubicon2\d5\rb20f50r.dpk
5. Ignore any error about the package being in an older format (you may press 'Yes' or 'No', it makes no difference)
6. Right click on the dialog box
7. Click on View Source
8. Find f206_r50 and change it to f210_r50 (the current package name)
9. Press Ctrl+S to save the changes
10. Return to the package dialog box
11. Press Compile
12. Press OK when done compiling
13. Open \rubicon2\d5\rb20r50d.dpk
14. Press Install
15. Press OK when done installing
16. Exit Delphi
17. Copy the new \rubicon2\d5\rb20f50r.bpl to your system directory (Important!).

Delphi Command Line Compiler

1. Exit Delphi 5
2. Open a Command Prompt or DOS Window
3. Change the directory to \rubicon2\d5
4. Open rb20f50r.dpk with Notepad
5. Change f206_r50 to f210_r50 (the current package name)
6. Save the changes and exit Notepad
7. Execute the following command to recompile the Rubicon FF driver run time package (the path to dcc32.exe and the FF library may vary):
   "c:\program files\borland\delphi5\bin\dcc32" rb20f50r.dpk -Ud:\ff2
8. Execute the following command to recompile the Rubicon FF driver design time package (the path to dcc32.exe and the FF library may vary):
   "c:\program files\borland\delphi5\bin\dcc32" rb20f50d.dpk -Ud:\ff2
9. Confirm that the new bpl and dcp files have been created in \rubicon2\d5.  If not, check to see if a different output directory is specified in \program files\borland\\delphi5 \bin\dcc32.cfg, and if so, remove it.
10. Copy rb20f50r.bpl to your system directory (Important!)
11. Start Delphi 5
12. Click Component | Install Packages and make sure that the Rubicon FF driver has a checkmark (This assumes that a prior version of the Rubicon driver was installed.  If not, then rb20f50d.bpl will have to be installed)

Troubleshooting

The most common problem that occurs during recompiling is that one or more out of date files are visible to the compiler.  Check your system for rb20f50?.*.  These files should only be in \rubicon2\d5 and your system directory.  In addition, you may have to delete the following from \rubicon2\d5: rb20f50?.dcp, rb20f50?.dof, rb20f50?.bpl, and rb20f50?.dcu (for C++ Builder also delete rb20f50?.lib, rb20f50?.obj, rb20f50?.tds, and rb20f50?.bpi).

If you are using the command line compiler, check that the path information in \program files\borland\\delphi5\bin\dcc32.cfg is correct.