Unspecified Error in Delphi 2007 on Windows 8

If you have encounter the compiler problem [Unspecified Error] in Delphi 2007 on Windows 8 x64 platform, like the following.

You probably wondering what happens here. Some projects seem perfectly fine. But if you build all projects, it will always stop at that particular project with this error.

The project is usually a COM DLL, in the compiler options, you can specify the option ‘Auto Register the Type Library’.

You need to untick this to bypass this annoying error. Because on Windows 8 x64, many operations require administrative permissions. The ‘Auto register type library’ is one of the operations that need the admin rights. If not, it will simply fail.

To register type library, is the same as run the command ‘regsvr32 COM.dll’.

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