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posted by kerravon E-mail, Ligao, Free World North, 05.07.2021, 01:00

> > Ok, the main problem was solved by switching
> > from ldwin to the "ld" that is provided by
> > FPC. For some reason it is working even though
> > ld that comes with Cygwin, and my ldwin, come
> > up with errors and require --no-inhibit to
> > ignore them. I wonder what those errors mean,
> > as surely there must be a way of getting
> > normal "ld" to work?
>
> For windows, the internal linker is recommended, as I already told you.
Lots of things are preferred by others, but I
was hoping that my preferred option would work.

> For questions about why 3rd party builds of ld.exe don't work, ask the
> people that built them. It might be options, or known issues, problems with
> weak linking, problems with processing of link scripts or using _ prefixes
> for some legacy reason.
The root problem is that FPC is generating
assembler code that is far more complicated
than C produces. Is there a reason for that
and can it be disabled?

> > Producing a 100% public domain executable
>
> The PD thing is your own hang up. Nearly the entire world is fine with BSD
> and LGPL-static-linking-exception.
There was a time when the entire world, quite
literally, believed that the sun revolved around
the earth.

It's a logical fallacy - argumentum ad populum.

If people are too stupid to ask the question -
why are these people refusing to release their
code unconditionally - what are they holding
back, my executables are copyrighted by them,
they can decide to exercise their copyright
rights whenever they want, that's their problem.

I'm just plugging away quietly creating a backstop
for people who think like me. I'm not alone, even
if I'm in a minority. Galileo was both alone and
jailed.

It is people who are copyrighting their freeware
that are the ones with hangups about PD. And that's
being generous. If I was less generous I would say
that they were insidious.

> In the nineties some people were paranoid about open source licenses, but
> it is 2021 now, and this is all daily fare for most programmers. I haven't
> heard about this particular direction in decades.
Perhaps the question you should ask is why you
haven't heard about the decades-long effort.

Specifically why in 2021 the public doesn't
actually own an operating system (well, they
do now, but they don't know they do).

BFN. Paul.

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