Building a project in Delphi 10.3 fails if the build script output contains "error:"

[dummzeuch 1505]

I just had a nasty surprise with Delphi 10.3 when trying to build a project that worked fine with previous Delphi versions. The problem turned out the text one of my pre build events wrote to the output. It contained the string "error :" [...]

 

read on in my blog post

 

 

[Dave Nottage 557]

Happens to me, too. It seems to key on "error:" (i.e. with a colon) because this produces the same result:

@echo There was not one error: everything is OK

 

 

[dummzeuch 1505]

I apparently doesn't care whether there is a space between 'error' and ':' or not. I haven't investigated any further, e.g. if "warning:" also counts as a compiler warning.

 

Even if it is meant as a feature, it's definitely not implemented correctly as there should not be such an additional and confusing error dialog.

And of course it should have been documented.