Specifying run-time packages list in Delphi Tokyo

Question

I would like to use link with run-time packages to build my App.exe .

My question is that what's the different between leaving the run-time packages list empty or specifying some run-time packages into the list.

Empty

Specifying some packages

As the result of both approaches I still have to deploy rtl250.bpl and vcl250.bpl anyway to result my App.exe be able to run.

Question So what is the different ?

Answer 1

These packages are probably already mentioned in the inherited configurations. Thus it makes no difference if you specify them here or not.

Actually every package implicitly requires rtl and a lot of packages require vcl. So in any case you have to deploy rtl250.bpl and in most cases also vcl250.bpl when you compile with runtime packages.

If you don't want to deploy those bpl files just don't compile with runtime packages.