Install VCL UI PACK in the community edition

[adrian]

Hi,
The problem is that our trials are pre-compiled, they come without sources and just the dcus for a specific version. The registered versions come with the full source code, and the sources are compiled in the installation, which is better because you get the exact dcus that your compiler generates.

But Delphi CE doesn't have command line compilers, so the setup can't compile on the fly as it does in normal Delphi. We really wish Embarcadero shipped command line compilers in CE (they used to do it), but they currently don't.

Still, there is a way to install in CE which is not "fully manual" using tms smart setup. Quoting from FlexCel installation error in Delphi CE 11.3 - #4 by adrian

@adrian

If you are installing in Community/starter, then do the following:

1. Uninstall the "setup.exe" UIPack you just installed, or the trial, if any is still installed (from add/remove programs in Windows). So we don't get conflicting installs.
2. Download smart setup from: TMS Smart Setup introduction | TMS Smart Setup documentation
3. create a folder where you want to install the components, extract tms.exe there, and then open a command line window in that folder.
4. write tms credentials to enter your registration data.
5. write tms config and configure the .yaml file as you want it. As this is Delphi CE, make sure you select only win32 and win64 if you want only that, since compiling by automating the IDE is slow and full of dialogs, so the less you compile the better.
6. Write tms install tms.vcl.uipack.

This won't be as nice as installing with a non-CE delphi, but it will automate delphi to compile. You might need to close some dialogs manually, but in general it works