Nothing at all compiles with -m64 on Windows

[user1234]

On Saturday, 11 May 2019 at 09:59:25 UTC, Anonymouse wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 May 2019 at 17:33:22 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote:
>> I've had this happen, too. I don't know for sure, but I think 
>> it may be because the installers aren't prepared to do 
>> updates, not on Windows, anyway.
>>
>> My best success for updating has been to scrape D completely 
>> off my drive (ie. uninstall DMC and DMD using Control Panel > 
>> Programs and Features) then reinstall from scratch.
>
> I only had DMD installed, but I uninstalled it and reinstalled 
> to no effect.
>
> Removing Visual Studio 2017 did fix it though, which is both a

This is because -m64 work in two ways un der win. Either with MS 
stuff or MinGW+LLD-link. If after removing VS it worked then this 
indicate that building with MS stuff is broken (but MinGW+LLD is 
fine). It's maybe a bug due to the fact that -m64 is the default 
now.

> relief and to some dismay.