Re: Python recompile

On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 12:20:35 +0000
bart <bc@freeuk.com> wibbled:

On 03/03/2025 10:44, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:

On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 08:31:16 +0000
Really? So if a compiler gives an error thats not a C problem? Go ask a
group for the specific compiler?

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The errors reported by the OP were like this:
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ld: error: relocation R_X86_64_32 cannot be used against symbol
'_PyRuntime'; recompile with -fPIC
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'ld' is a program that can be used to link programs in any language.
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The problem appears to be do with generating position independent code
since these days linkers like to generate programs that can loaded at an
arbitrary address in high memory.
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I can't see anything to do with C here, other than the source in
question may have been written in C.

Yes, thats kind of the point. You wouldn't get these errors if it was written
in Java or C#.

I expect however you'd be OK with this forum being full of everyday
development issues associated with a million different applications, but
which just happen to be written in C, or which are partly in C.

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On usenet? That is pretty much dead.

Not dead but certainly not buzzing yet I presume thats how you like it given
you don't want any "everyday development issues" relating to C mentioned here.

Or are you another one who thinks usenet should be for the exclusive discussion
of high brow issues only of interest to you?