Embarcadero® Delphi 12 Update 1 - creating a exe file

Their seems to be little help on the internet to create a *.exe file
Its a 64 bit VCL Application I want to run
It’s better to show you with what I’m making than describe in words alone my project

I’m sure I need to set a switch or something before creating a *.exe file
I have not recorded any setting changes to the complier yet ? I hope
Its not as straight forward as Delphi 7

Can you be more specific about your problem?

An exe file is usually produced when you compile or build your project - does that end successfully?

My apologies if I’ve misinterpreted you but I think what you’re looking for is the Target Platforms node in the project manager.

Here’s the documentation on how it works.

It’s pretty easy though, basically you double click the platform you want to switch to as your target. If the platform you need isn’t listed you right click the Target Platforms node and select “Add”.

Just to add to that, when you want to find where the exe, ipa, or whatever is created do the following:

This will open a Windows explorer window at the location of your project.

For Windows 64-bit the exe will be located in the Win64 subfolder.

That’s because Delphi 7 could only create Windows exes - whereas RAD Studio 12.2 can create executables for several other platforms: Win32, Win64, Android, iOS, macOS, and Linux - so the same method of putting the exe directly in the output folder would not easily work.

I got it it was hiding because it was not shown as an exe and it would not open as a *.exe
I will put it up under a new subject!!!

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