Hi everyone,
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've submitted a merge request that generates a warning instead of an
error if it detects the DLL is 64-bit for a 32-bit target and vice
versa. The checks, however, are very strict (it checks the COFF magic
number, which contains a platform target, and the size of the optional
header), and an error is still thrown if the DLL is actually corrupted
or is for an unknown target.
A warning is still thrown because the program that uses it may
malfunction, and might be indicative of a bug or a faulty search path
for the DLL.
https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc/source/-/merge_requests/91
Gareth aka. Kit
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