Delphi 5.01: .dfm not found

I have several packages in my application which I want to distribute. I am not shipping source, just .dcu and the .bpl files.

The problem I’m having is that if the application is compiled without runtime packages, the linker barfs because it wants the .dfm files, even though they are in the .bpl file.

I don’t want to ship the .dfm’s.

If the application is compiled with runtime packages, then everything works fine, so obviously the .dfm’s are available, although of course they are being linked in dynamically rather than statically.

Anybody got suggestions?