Assembly - 64-bit registers supported?

[Mike Wey]

On 01/24/2013 01:08 AM, dale wrote:
> I am following these helpful suggestions, but still having trouble
> linking properly. I have Visual Studio 10 and its 64-bit extension
> installed, and I believe the amd64\link.exe is getting called, but I
> must have something configured incorrectly, because it does not appear
> to find all of the libraries correctly.
>
> C:\prj\D>dmd -m64 hello64B.d
>
> C:\d\dmd2\windows\bin\..\lib\shell32.lib : warning LNK4003: invalid
> library format; library ignored
> C:\d\dmd2\windows\bin\..\lib\kernel32.lib : warning LNK4003: invalid
> library format; library ignored
> phobos64.lib(dmain2_4a8_47b.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external
> symbol GetCommandLineW referenced in function _d_run_main
> phobos64.lib(dmain2_4a8_47b.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external
> symbol CommandLineToArgvW referenced in function _d_run_main
> ...
>
> And zillions more "unresolved externals" follow.
>
> Why is it trying to include shell32.lib and kernel32.lib for a 64-bit
> app? Is that a problem?
>
> Any hints as to what I'm missing?
>
> Thanks,
> dale

I think this has come up before, and it has something to do with some 
environment variables set in sc.ini and the MS linker picking up the 
libs supplied be dmd for win32 because of it.

-- 
Mike Wey