Visual D "Multiple object files" TypeInfo errors

[Rainer Schuetze]

On 23/04/2019 02:12, Alex wrote:
> "There is a multiple objects file option but for some reason it causes
> the project to fail with unresolved externals from TypeInfo.* so I have
> no idea if it actually does anything or not."

That option enables "-multiobj" on the dmd command line. It's
undocumented and mimicks what happens when building a library (but keeps
the object files instead of packaging them into the library). I guess
not all of these object files are linked in that case. I should remove
that option.

> 
> When trying the option to maybe speed of compilation I get a bunch of
> errors:
> 
> error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol
> "TypeInfo_S3std5range__T6RepeatTAyaZQm.__init"
> (_D37TypeInfo_S3std5range__T6RepeatTAyaZQm6__initZ)
> phobos64.lib(timezone_342c_37a.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external
> symbol tzset referenced in function "nothrow @nogc @safe bool
> std.datetime.timezone.LocalTime.singleton().__lambda3()"
> (_D3std8datetime8timezone9LocalTime9singletonFNeZ9__lambda3FNbNiNfZb)
> fatal error LNK1120: 81 unresolved externals
> 
> Compiles fine without the option.
> 
>