Building LDC on windows, woe is me!

[kinke]

On Sunday, 20 August 2023 at 00:12:06 UTC, claptrap wrote:
> Ok got as far as generating NINJA build files, but now the 
> build is failing...
>
>
> C:\LDCDEV\build-ldc-x64>ninja
> [1/104] Linking CXX executable bin\FileCheck.exe
> FAILED: bin/FileCheck.exe
>
> error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __std_find_trivial_8
> error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __std_find_trivial_1
> error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol 
> __std_init_once_link_alternate_names_and_abort
>
> and others
>
> Actual output is prob 1000 lines but seems to be mostly 
> unresolved eternal symbols, in llvm.
>
> Any ideas?

I guess you're using a prebuilt LLVM but a non-matching Visual 
C++ version. Our prebuilt LLVM is built with VS 2022 and clang 
15. As stated in 
https://wiki.dlang.org/Building_and_hacking_LDC_on_Windows_using_MSVC#Building_LLVM, you'll need to build LLVM yourself in such a case.