On 2021-08-23 15:11, Bart via fpc-devel wrote:
On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 3:01 PM Tomas Hajny via fpc-devel
<fpc-devel@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)
You probably cannot see it there if looking there by using a 64-bit
application. If you use a 32-bit build of some file manager, you'd
probably see it there as well.
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?
Yes, it does.
Tomas
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