export keyword messes up static linking

[torhu]

I'm porting headers for a C lib do D.  There are a bunch of globals in 
the C lib.  To get those correctly linked with the D code, I have to 
declare them 'export extern extern (C)'.

That works fine for dynamically linking with the C lib, at least with 
dmd on windows.  The problem is that it won't work if you try to link 
statically.  The linker accepts it, but at least some of the globals are 
not linked with the C definitions, they don't contain the correct values.

And for linking statically using dmd on linux, it just doesn't work. 
The export symbols get mangled like '_imp__foo', so it won't link.

Is there any way around this?  I've tried using a .def file, but it 
doesn't do anything.  This is what I tried:

EXETYPE NT
SUBSYSTEM CONSOLE

IMPORTS
     cglobals.var
     cglobals.array


If that had worked, I wouldn't have had to declare global C variables 
'export' in my import modules, so I would have been able to link the 
same code both statically and dynamically.

Littering the code with version statements for this seems a bit over the 
top.  And using the C preprocessor on D code wasn't supposed to be 
necessary.