Linker error on Windows - Is there a bug fix / work around?

[Jesse Phillips via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 25 April 2016 at 11:08:56 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I only rarely use dmd so forgive me if this is a known issue.
>
> If you compile the Chapter4\noteapp2 application on Windows 
> from my book (using dmd 2.071.0) then you get the error:
>
> OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 8.00.17
> Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989-2013  All rights reserved.
> http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/optlink.html
> .dub\build\application-debug-windows-x86-dmd_2071-B4EE3FC00CF6CA600F2FCC18096C25E0\noteapp2.obj(noteapp2)  Offset 29B9AH Record Type 009D
>  Error 16: Index Range
> --- errorlevel 1
>
> How can I work around this error? The application compiles & 
> runs fine on Linux.
> Would it be worth to try to use -mscoff?
>
> Regards,
> Kai

I don't know this error, but I would recommend -m64 or -m32mscoff 
as a work around. If you have problems with the linker finding 
files you can use the Developer Command Prompt and the 
environment should be setup correctly.