[fpc-devel] Untranslatable (hardcoded) messages

[Tomas Hajny]

On 2021-08-23 14:37, Bart via fpc-devel wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 2:28 PM Tomas Hajny via fpc-devel
> <fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
> 
>> Does it exist in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ on your machine?
> 
> Yes, there is a common.dll there.
> I think that syswow64 is not in my %PATH%, but currently I'm at work
> and cannot check.
> 
> I also do not know how to examine wether this one is 32 or 64 bit.
> 
> (And even that one is 32-bit and the header is wrong, the errormessage
> would still be wrong, since it explicitely mentions
> C:\Windows\system32).

The compiler finds the DLL by looking to C:\Windows\system32. As 
mentioned in another e-mail, the fact that this request is redirected to 
C:\Windows\SysWOW64 instead by the underlying operating system is a MS 
Windows trickery - feel free to complain at Microsoft. ;-)

Tomas