Crystal Reports XI R2 and Delphi 7.x

Question

Post Author: Laurent
CA Forum: Other
Hi,
i'm using Delphi 7.x and Crystal Reports XI R2 and VCL for CR XI.The Database is an Oracle 9.x or 10.x acording to our software internal version.
When i run the application i got an error 100: error loading crpe32.dll.
I look in the KB and found it is connected to a path issue or missing MFC42.dll.
I check for the last file, it exist on my machine, i edit the path, setting the CR bin folder first in the list, not helping.
Any other idea, please?
BR
Laurent

Answer 1

Post Author: Luca Pucci
CA Forum: Other
Hi Laurent,
I've tried the solution you suggest but it seems fix the problem only partially, i still get the 'can't load library' error form time to time, expecially after I've priented many reports from my application (that's strange but that is !).
Browsing through TCrpe source files I've found that the funcion GetCommonFilesPath in the file UcrpeUtl.pas use a registry key that is not valid if you're using CR11rel2 :
regKey.OpenKey('SOFTWARE\Business Objects\Suite 11.0\Crystal Reports', False);
if you change this line in :
regKey.OpenKey('SOFTWARE\Business Objects\Suite 11.5\Crystal Reports', False);
recompile and reinstall the package and everything seems to work fine.
You don't need to have the crpe32.dll in the same folder as your executable anymore, because now your application can retrive the correct common file directory and load the dll from its standard location.
There are some other registry key that point to version 11.0, they don't seems to be important and I decided not to change them, but eventually you can decide to change them all.
Best Regards
Luca.