Firemonkey designide.dcp 64 bit

Question

Has anyone successfully build a custom component in Firemonkey using designide.dcp for a 64 bit OS? I am trying to add a design editor to a custom component. I followed the tutorial on http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/XE3/en/Creating_a_Component_Editor_and_a_Property_Editor_for_FireMonkey_Components. This works just fine when compiling to 32 bit, but I get the following error for 64 bit : [dcc64 Fatal Error] ComponentEditor.pas(10): E2213 Bad packaged unit format: c:\program files (x86)\embarcadero\rad studio\11.0\lib\win32\release\designide.dcp.DesignEditors - Expected version: 25.0, Windows Unicode(x64) Found version: 25.0, Windows Unicode(x86)

Looking at the path this makes sense as the file refer to lib\win32. However, under lib\win64 there is no such file.

I've been trying to find a solution on the internet without any luck. It does not look like many people have tried this yet.

Answer 1

There is no designide.dcp for 64 bit. The IDE (and therefore all of the design time code) is 32-bit. It can compile 64-bit targets, but the IDE itself (and any components and packages) are 32-bit only.