[fpc-devel] Fix for an annoying error

[J. Gareth Moreton]

Yeah, that's the exact same file that I have problems with.

Gareth aka. Kit

On 30/11/2021 18:34, Bart via fpc-devel wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 8:33 AM J. Gareth Moreton via fpc-devel
> <fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>
>> For a while now I've had problems building the i386-win32 compiler under
>> my 64-bit Windows system because one of the packages fails to build -
>> this is because it thinks a statically-imported DLL (done through
>> $linklib) is invalid. Technically it is, but this system DLL (for me, it
>> is named COMMON.DLL and is in one of my system folders, so it's not
>> something I can safely modify or replace) is for 64-bit Windows and is
>> not recognised when building for 32-bit, and the only 'fix' is to
>> comment out the culprit $linklib line in the package source.
> I have had exactly the same problem on Win64 building 32-bit fpc.
> The culprit was the file packages\oracle\src\oraoci.pp
>
> As it turned out the common.dll was in the wrong folder (64-bit in a
> 32-bit folder or vice-versa).
> Most likely by a buggy installer of sorts.
> I have been fiddling with the system and found a way to remove that
> dll, not even sure how I succeeded.
>
> After disabling the dll and then removing it my Win10-64 just runs fine.
> And compiling fpc (32-bit) was OK again.
>
> Before I succeeded in that, I even wrote a simple program that altered
> packages\oracle\src\oraoci.pp so it would build correctly and the
> restore it after build (I was getting a bit desperate and frustrated).
>

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