David Allsopp

> Moreover, there is no need to change `.gitignore` to commit configure with the release script, we can use `git commit --force ` with the finite number of files that...

[precheck#768](https://ci.inria.fr/ocaml/job/precheck/768/)

I expect this was "broken" by #10351 (static linking has never been a formal thing for Windows OCaml, although "one day, I'd like it...." - pre-3.11 the DLL was required...

A small update - mainly to note that I haven't forgotten this 🙂 I just opened https://github.com/ocaml/flexdll/pull/106, which is part of removing the runtime requirement on both `libwinpthread-1.dll` and also...

Dune commands are fine - something along the lines of `git clone ... ; opam install ; dune build ...` will be great, thanks 🙂 The pthreads part could be...

(PS I'll be very happy to be told that MASM has a simpler way of doing this - I've struggled to find examples of this happening elsewhere)

I'd need to page this back in (indeed, I have most if not all of a fix for it somewhere), but IIRC the problem here is user-code generating these symbols

Still an issue - I just pushed the code I'd started to put together in 2019 to [dra27/ocaml](https://github.com/dra27/ocaml/commits/masm-reserved).

I think that the only thing needed for the branch referenced is to lookup and add the complete list of MASM reserved keywords to it

The relocatable compiler patches won't ever help with running bytecode executables in the build tree (you'll always have to run them with `ocamlrun` manually). They would be able to help...