Delphi 2006 Environment Variables not being used

FinalBuilder Bugs
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We are moving our build process from a 32-bit Windows server with FinalBuilder 6 to a Windows Server 2008 (64-bit) and FinalBuilder 7.  When we run the script on the new machine we get Delphi compiler errors stating that environment variables cannot be expanded (e.g. DXVCL).

If we look at the Environment Variables defined in the registry all the expected variable names are present.  The Environment Variable values are held in:

  HKCU\Software\Wow6432Node\Borland\BDS\4.0\Environment Variables

When we look at the "Variables" in the treevew of the FinalBuilder IDE, these variables are NOT present in any of the child nodes (Project, User, Application or Environment).  The expected Delphi detection variables ARE present (e.g. DELPHI2006)

 

Delphi compiler options:

  Use BDS2006 Environment Variables at startup

is ENABLED

 

Is there a problem with this build of FinalBuilder or have we missed something in our configuration ?

(NOTE: We did not "install" Delphi on the build machine - we store an image of a Delphi install in our SVN repository and a pair of .reg files to import the necessary keys.  These have been updated to reflect the move to 64-bits, hence DELPHI2006 is being set correctly in FinalBuilder)

Many thanks in advance.

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Never mind.

On a hunch I tried importing the HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry settings to the 64-bit tree:

   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Borland\BDS\4.0\Environment Variables

i.e. NOT into the Wow6432Node as should be required on 64-bit Windows for a 32-bit process.  (the RootDir value IS still required to be under Wow6432Node in HKLM\SOFTWARE.  Very strange)

But this has fixed things so all good.

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I just had a look through our code and we’re only reading using the 32bit api’s (ie we are not specifying KEY_WOW64_64KEY) to read the keys. If I have a look on my machine those keys are not under the Wow6432Node so perhaps HKEY_CURRENT_USER is treated differently to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE? At least that’s how it appears in my tests.