While linking a Lazarus program a as.exe call (???) is caused. How can I force a ldw.exe call? Is there a missing switch?

D:\>fpc project1.dpr
Hint: End of reading config file d:\fpc\bin\win32\fpc.cfg Free Pascal Compiler version 1.9.1 [2003/11/16] for i386 Copyright (c) 1993-2002 by Florian Klaempfl
Target OS: Win32 for i386
Compiling project1.dpr
Compiling resource project1.res
Linking project1.exe
project1.dpr(15,1) Error: Util as.exe not found, switching to external linking
Closing script ppas.bat

D:\>

While linking a Lazarus program a as.exe call (???) is caused. How can I force a ldw.exe call? Is there a missing switch?

Simply do a

cd <the fpc dir>/bin/win32
copy asw.exe as.exe
copy ldw.exe ld.exe

etc.

In 1.9.x we removed all special "w" handling, and went back to the normal names for windows.

Originally the adding of "w" was done to be able to use win32 and the dos compiler together, but that is increasingly difficult anyway (since NT based Windows versions have various flaws in the dos support).

So we properly separated dos and windows and renamed everything back to their proper names.

I have small petition

can anybody prepare for download all others programs to use with FPC like AS.EXE, LD.EXE, MAKE.EXE, WINDRES.EXE etc.
this may be the same place like others things in snapshot: BASEW32.ZIP, UTILW32.ZIP

or I can't find this

Darek

From: "Darek Mazur"
To:
Subject: Re: [fpc-devel]asw.exe
Send reply to:

Date sent: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 22:54:07 +0100

These utils were supplied with the 1.9.0 beta release for Win32 (asldw32.zip within the complete w32190.zip). I added this file (asldw32.zip) to the snapshot/v11/win32-i386 directory on FTP as well now (it should be replicated to mirrors within few days at most).

Tomas