"don't know how to make 'src\unittest.d'" error while rebuilding Phobos

[Jesse Phillips]

On Thursday, 29 March 2012 at 16:51:24 UTC, Gleb wrote:

> OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 8.00.12
> Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989-2010  All rights reserved.
> http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/optlink.html
> D:\UserFiles\D\dmd2\windows\bin\..\lib\phobos.lib(file)
>  Error 42: Symbol Undefined _D3std10__fileinit9useWfuncsOb
> D:\UserFiles\D\dmd2\windows\bin\..\lib\phobos.lib(file)
>  Error 42: Symbol Undefined _D3std10__fileinit12__ModuleInfoZ
> --- errorlevel 2
>
> I have commented out all the code related with curl, so it is 
> not because of curl . It looks like my new phobos.lib is 
> somehow bad.
> I have no idea what does this error mean. Google didn't help. 
> So I was trying to use unittests to find out what's wrong.

This is a linker error, it can't find phobos.lib.

You can pass phobos2.lib on the commandline, I don't know the 
linker flags for optlink to find it. sc.ini is the configuration 
for it though.