Why is the fPIC switch missing?

[Daniel Kozak]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 3:35 AM Emmanuelle via Digitalmars-d-learn
<digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> Hello. My problem is exactly what it says on the title: my dmd
> (windows 7, x64) doesn't seem to have -fPIC:
>
> ---
> > dmd -fPIC
> Error: unrecognized switch '-fPIC'
>         run `dmd` to print the compiler manual
>         run `dmd -man` to open browser on manual
> ---
>
> `dmd --help` also doesn't have anything about fPIC. Sorry if I'm
> being dense but why is that? Is it only available on Linux?
>
> Thank you!

It seems it is not available for windows and MacOS:

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/639c67162b2be90ebf8dc9a9f8118cb2a9606569/src/dmd/cli.d#L323