ldc2 64 bit windows linking problem

[Carl Sturtivant]

On Sunday, 28 June 2020 at 22:18:29 UTC, kinke wrote:
> On Sunday, 28 June 2020 at 21:56:26 UTC, Carl Sturtivant wrote:
>> Just got ldc2 for this machine/platform, want to use 
>> -link-internally .
>> Added the bin directory to my Path. lcd2 compiles but lld-link 
>> cannot find its libs. Any suggestions?
>
> Yeah, please mention the used LDC version explicitly as that 
> part has seen a bigger rework in v1.22 (as mentioned in the 
> changelog), and then run with -v, checking the trailing lines 
> right before the linker command ('Prepending to environment 
> variables', the MSVC toolchain auto-detection & setup).
>
> If auto-detection somehow finds an unsuited installation, you 
> can enforce a dir via LDC_VSDIR (see README.txt). In case your 
> environment variables play a role, dumping them via `set` and 
> posting them might provide insights.

OK, sorry for wasting your time. It seems VS was once installed 
on this machine and later removed, but some stray environment 
variables were left behind. Once deleted, everything just worked.