In Delphi 7, can I set up 'Debug' and 'Release' modes?

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Blorgbeard is out picture Blorgbeard is out · Oct 6, 2008 · Viewed 7.8k times · Source

In most modern IDEs, you can have Debug and Release build configurations, and you can quickly switch between them.

In Delphi 7, this does not seem to be possible. I have to go to Project Settings and toggle optimization and all the debug information stuff manually.

It would be great if there was a plugin or some such that handled this for me.

Does anyone know of one? Any other suggestions?

Edit: I can't upgrade to Delphi 2007 or 2009 as we have a large Delphi 7 codebase which would have to be converted. I agree that would be the best solution in theory though :P

Answer

Mihai Limbășan picture Mihai Limbășan · Oct 7, 2008

You can very easily add project configurations, similar to what other IDEs offer, using Andreas Hausladen's great DDevExtensions IDE expert. Just make sure to download the 1.6 version from the link I mentioned, since later versions only work with Delphi 2009. The 1.6 version works with any Delphi version between 5 and 2007, inclusive.

The expert adds a submenu under the Project menu, in case you can't find it at first.

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