dub windows unrecognised file extension a

[Nicholas Wilson]

On Sunday, 9 September 2018 at 04:53:05 UTC, Nicholas Wilson 
wrote:
> On Sunday, 9 September 2018 at 04:01:30 UTC, Nicholas Wilson 
> wrote:
>> On windows with dub it seems to be creating libfoo.a instead 
>> of foo.lib, I don't think I changed any settings. Old build 
>> based on 2.078 DMDFE seem to have built .lib but LDC based on 
>> 2.082 seems to be building .a
>
> This definitely seems to be dubs fault: it passes 
> -of/path/to/output/libFoo.a to LDC which compiles. `dub 
> describe` also has
>
> {
> ...
> "packages" : [
> ...
> {
> ...
> "targetFileName" : "libFoo.a",

https://github.com/dlang/dub/pull/1559

Ugh time to recompile LLVM & LDC again.