DWPL Files

Instructions to install DWPL for Delphi 5, 6, 7
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These steps are required to install DWPL:

1. Extract all files with sub-directories from "dwplXXX.zip" into any folder.

2. Go to the folder where you extracted the files and run "build.bat".
   Note, you cannot build DWPL with Delphi 5 Standard; see step 3.

3. Select the Delphi version for which you want to build this DWPL
   installation. Note, for Delphi 5 Standard, download instead the
   pre-compiled binary patches (file "dwplXXXbr5.exe") and run this
   file to generate your DWPL units for D5.

4. Pray for a successful build-process. :-)

5. Take a look at the documentation, the demo projects and the source ;-)


To reuse a DWPL installation with another Delphi version
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Since the lib folder will contain units compiled with a specific Delphi
version and in some cases the original DWPL sources (in the source folder)
are modified special care is needed if you want to switch to another
Delphi version. Note that you can just extract the original zip into
another folder and use that with another version of Delphi.
Or go to DWPL's root folder and run "build -restore". Then run build.bat
again to rebuild everything.


Other notes
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The documentation is at doc\dwpl.chm in html help format. On old Win95/NT
systems the HTML Help control and such stuff may be missing, in this case
update your system, I think this thing is also downloadable separately from MS.

The folder "source\rtl\tp" may contain code which is not part of
DWPL, but is useful for Delphi+WDOSX development even without DWPL.

The `bin' folder contains the binaries of WDOSX 0.97 beta 2 but the WDL files
are _heavily modified_ and are unofficial.
They are taken from the 2003/07/23 release of k32.zip.
This means that automatic long filename support is included in kernel32.wdl.

And it also means that DWPL now *requires* these modified WDL files! It won't
work with any official WDOSX releases.

Various example programs can be found in the demos directory.

You can (partially) build almost all demos by building all projects in the
project group demos\builddemos.bpg.
But please read demos\readme.txt before doing this.

The networking stuff has its own documentation in PDF format, it's in doc\net.
You can use Acrobat Reader or Ghostscript+GSView to browse it.


Enjoy,

The DWP Team
http://www.dwp42.org