Showing posts with label Windows 7. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Windows 7. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

BDE and Windows 7, 32 and 64 bits

I know, I know... BDE is discontinued and stuff. But many people still need BDE running in new Windows 7 32 and 64 machines. Here is a working Setup for BDE 5.2.0.2 (the latest version released by Borland) plus all SQL Links.
Notes:
  • Installs BDE 5.2.0.2 + all SQL Links
  • During setup there is an option to remove previous BDE registry entries.If you have an old corrupted BDE installation, maybe this option can fix it (It will remove EVERYTHING below HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Borland\Database Engine registry entry, and you have been warned!).
  • This setup was tested and works perfectly under Windows 2000, 2003 Server, XP, 2008 Server, Vista and Seven, 32 and 64 bits.
  • The setup correctly prompts for UAC elevation. By the way, it was created using Jordan Russell's excellent installer creator Inno Setup (also created with Delphi)!

Download BDE 5.2.0.2 Setup in English:
http://www.alex7691.com/download/Setup_BDE52.zip

Download BDE 5.2.0.2 Setup in brazilian portuguese:
http://www.alex7691.com/download/Setup_BDE52_PTB.zip

Note: During last months the number of downloads increased a LOT. Some users were receiving messages like "bandwidth limit exceeded". Now I have upgraded my host service plan, so you can easily download it!Enjoy! :-)

Some user gave a false alert about malware/trojan/virus/whatever inside the files. According to VirusTotal (http://www.virustotal.com) this is completely untrue.
Latest scan report of this file: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/7d37616710f8d5da8d2f859560814fd89b22aef7b6fb47902161bc9f7289145a/analysis/

In short: 0 detections!

Please feel free to re-submit it ;-)

PS: Rene Nussbaum, from Germany wrote me asking about the setup license model/type. Well... This setup is 100% free including its usage in commercial software. You can include this setup in your deployment package, and you can also redistribute it.

Enjoy! :-)