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<p>I'm trying to avoid removing the $linklib statement, but
currently it's the only way to build the i386-win32 compiler on my
64-bit system. I'm suggesting turning the error into a warning,
if the correct DLL can't be found, because it doesn't affect
successful compilation of the unit.</p>
<p>Of course, being able to locate the correct 32-bit DLL or some
such is better overall, although I would still propose a warning
over an error.</p>
<p>Gareth aka. Kit<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/04/2021 09:42, Michael Van
Canneyt via fpc-devel wrote:<br>
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On Tue, 6 Apr 2021, Florian Klämpfl via fpc-devel wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Am 06.04.2021 um 07:37 schrieb Sven
Barth via fpc-devel <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org"><fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org></a>:
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Am 05.04.2021 um 20:33 schrieb J. Gareth Moreton via
fpc-devel:
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<blockquote type="cite">Hi everyone,
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I have a slightly annoying error when building the compiler
for i386-win32. I mentioned it to Sven a while ago, and the
cause is due to the fact that my copy of common.dll is
64-bit, not 32-bit (as Sven confirmed for me).
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Compiling .\oracle\src\oraoci.pp
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oraoci.pp(1437) Error: Invalid DLL
C:\WINDOWS\system32\common.dll, invalid header size
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oraoci.pp(1437) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module,
stopping
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Fatal: Compilation aborted
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Simply commenting out "{$linklib common}" on line 19 of the
above file fixes the problem. I would like to propose that
this error be changed to a warning, since apparently not
having the library present doesn't cause issues for
compilation, just possibly execution later on.
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No. If you have a messed up system, that is not *our* fault.
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But isn’t the complaint valid to a certain degree: if one cross
compiles from x86_64-win64 to i386-win32, then the wrong DLLs
are checked due to folder redirection, no? We have only code in
place for the other direction (i386-win32 to x86_64-win64).
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The weird behaviour of windows is is not a valid reason to remove
a {$linklib} statement.
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Michael.<br>
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