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Post-installation, the developer must ensure that any application compiled with Tokyo includes the appropriate BDE DLLs in the deployment directory or system path during distribution.

Click and navigate to your RAD Studio installation's \bin folder (typically C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\Studio\19.0\bin ).

While Embarcadero officially deprecated the BDE years ago, tens of thousands of production applications still rely on it for accessing Paradox, dBASE, and local SQL data. This article serves as the definitive walkthrough for obtaining, installing, and configuring the .

This is where most developers get stuck. The BDE is a technology. It runs via thunking layers on 64-bit Windows.