Dexed Fails to Link on x86_64 Windows

[Basile B.]

On Thursday, 10 August 2023 at 22:38:06 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> On Thursday, 10 August 2023 at 10:29:13 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
>> On Saturday, 22 July 2023 at 16:50:17 UTC, Ruby The Roobster 
>> wrote:
>>> Following all of the steps for building on windows, I get the 
>>> following linker error:
>>>
>>> ```
>>> dexed-d.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol 
>>> __imp__D3std12experimental6logger12__ModuleInfoZ referenced 
>>> in function ldc.dllimport_relocation
>>> ```
>>>
>>> I'm using LDC 1.32.0.
>>> Linker used is the Microsoft linker, not sure if that matters.
>>
>> Since [those 
>> changes](https://gitlab.com/basile.b/dexed/-/commit/052e49aa35f7c2097bd714033a5ac75dac5fe992#9d1e5b64717091f93d3582fa8114e60b73160ccf_15_13) that should ~~work~~ compile (I admit I have not tested to see if that even runs) now.
>
> Actually I will tell you a little story. Trust it or dont.
>
> So I was on IRC, in contact with Richard, trying to fix the 
> problem. So it was like "if I do that that will be ok ?" which 
> I did. But there was still many error messages...So I was a bit 
> upset like "that still does not work..."
>
> It turns out that this worked... but the linker output 3000 
> lines of warnings..

that's why compiler warnings are bad ;)