[fpc-devel] Untranslatable (hardcoded) messages

[Bart]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 3:01 PM Tomas Hajny via fpc-devel
<fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:

> 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. ;-)

OK, just for my understanding of this:
I cannot see the file there (system32)
FPC looks for it there
Windows just says it's there (and silently redirects to syswow64 folder)
FPC looks at file, sees it's wrong, tells me the file in system32 is wrong.

Does that imply that, when I have a 32-bit program do a FindFirst for
common.dll in the system32 folder, Windows just tells the program that
the file is there?

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Bart