Howto use an alternative Linker with DUB?

[Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 11/16/2014 6:46 AM, univacc wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am sitting in front of this problems for hours now and I need help:
> I need the a linker that is capable of delayed DLL loading and
> apparently, OPTLINK does not provide this option.
>
> unilink and Microsofts incremental linker support it so I would like to
> use one of them but I cannot manage to get it to work.. :/
>
> When I try to replace the OPTLINK Linker with set LINKCMD=... then dub
> still tries to use the default argument list from OPTLINK, that
> obviously does not work with other Linkers.
>
> So what am I doing wrong

When compiling a 32-bit executable with DMD on Windows, you get OPTLINK 
by default. This has nothing to do with dub. You can use the MS linker 
by compiling a 64-bit exe (-m64), provided you have it installed and DMD 
is properly configured to use it. Also, I've read somewhere on here 
about support for the MS linker in 32-bit DMD with a special flag 
(-ms32coff IIRC), but I'm not sure if it's in the latest beta or what. A 
search of the newsgroup should turn something up for you if someone else 
doesn't give you the right answer first.