go: cmd/link: binary failed to execute with "This version of %1 is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running."

#!watchflakes
post <- builder ~ `windows` && `This version of %1 is not compatible`

2021-03-05T06:15:22-60b500d/windows-amd64-race

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State: open
Created 3 years ago
Comments: 21 (19 by maintainers)

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cmd/link: call syscall.FlushFileBuffers on outbuf Unmap In the windows version of OutBuf.munmap, call syscall.FlushFileBuffers after the call to syscall.FlushViewOfFile, on the theory that this will ... — committed to golang/go by thanm 2 years ago

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It’s almost certainly the linker (or, perhaps, the host linker, because cgo?). If the compiler generated garbage instructions, say, it wouldn’t make this kind of error. It would just be a SIGILL when running. Maybe the linker needs some extra flush somewhere?

randall77 on May 16, 2022