VS2013 VisualD OPTLINK : Error 2: pointing to a directory

[Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d-ide]

On 06.04.2015 14:32, ParticlePeter wrote:
> Hello Community,
> I have freshly installed VS2013 on Win8-64 and VisualD 3.40, optilink
> and VS Linker ( using MS-COF ) have a similar wired problem. I have no
> issues linking dub ( same projects as with VisualD ) and CPP projects.
>
> OPTILINK:
> Building Debug\myApp.exe...
> Access is denied.
> Access is denied.
> Access is denied.
> Access is denied.
> Access is denied.
> OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 8.00.17
> Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989-2013  All rights reserved.
> http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/optlink.html
> OPTLINK : Error 2: File Not Found E:\Code\DLang\myLib
> Building Debug\myApp.exe failed!
>
> MS linker with MS-COF:
> Building Debug\myApp.exe...
> Access is denied.
> Access is denied.
> Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 12.00.31101.0
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'E:\Code\DLang\myLib'
> Building Debug\myApp.exe failed!
>
> Both the errors inform me that the linker cannot find a FILE, but the
> path is a (existing!) DIRECTORY. I do not build and use myLib.lib in the
> myApp project but instead I use the source files from myLib as
> additional imports. These source files are located in
> E:\Code\DLang\myLib\source. I have no idea why the linker is directly
> using the path E:\Code\DLang\myLib for whatever.

If you just import the files, you probably also added a precompiled 
library to the linker inputs. Maybe this is where you added the path 
instead of the library file?

> I also don't hav a clue why the access is denied. No older version of
> myApp.exe is running, and I checked the write-protection attributes of
> all the files and folders.
>
> Any idea whats going wrong ?
>

Could you also post the *.build.cmd and the *.buildlog.html files from 
the output folder?