[fpc-devel] Untranslatable (hardcoded) messages

[Marco van de Voort]

Op 8/23/2021 om 3:11 PM schreef Bart via fpc-devel:
> dows 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?
For compilers this is always more difficult, since the mapping must 
match the target system rather than the host binary.