dmd linker and compiler

[Jeremy DeHaan]

On Monday, 25 November 2013 at 13:49:58 UTC, Frustrated wrote:
> I had an old dmd2 setup that worked perfectly. I recently 
> installed VS2013, SDK 8, DMD 2.064.2, and VS 3.37 on a fresh 
> system.
>
> I copied the project to the HD, updated the sc.ini files and 
> tried to compile. Basic projects would compile but my old 
> projects would give errors either:
>
> user32.lib not found when trying to use optilink. I spend about 
> 2 hours trying various ways to get it to find the user32.lib 
> file. It will only look in the project dir. I setup `LIB=` in 
> environment in sc.ini with no luck.
>
> In x64 mode, the linker gives an error that dmd.obj could not 
> be found. There is no such thing as dmd.obj and I have no idea 
> why it is finding this. It could be an issue with visual.d but 
> I see no where that it says anything about dmd.obj.
>
> I can't get my old projects to compile. Not that it matters, 
> but here is my sc.ini file.
>
> The project seems to compile file but simply won't link because 
> of the above 2 issues.
>
>
> [Version]
> version=7.51 Build 020
>
>
> ; environment for both 32/64 bit
> [Environment]
> WindowsSdkDir=C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows 
> Kits\8.1\Lib\win8\um
> VCINSTALLDIR=D:\Apps\Technical\VS2013\VC\
> DFLAGS=-L/nologo "-I%@P%\..\..\src\phobos" 
> "-I%@P%\..\..\src\druntime\import" "-ID:\DLang\Lib"
> LIB="%@P%\..\lib"
>
> [Environment32]
> LIB="%WindowsSdkDir%\x86"
> ; LIB="%@P%\..\lib"
> PATH=%PATH%;%VCINSTALLDIR%\bin\x86;%VCINSTALLDIR%\..\Common7\IDE;"%WindowsSdkDir%\x86";
> LINKCMD=%@P%\link.exe
>
>
> [Environment64]
> DFLAGS=%DFLAGS% -L/OPT:NOICF
> LIB="%WindowsSdkDir%\x64";"%@P%\..\lib64"
> PATH=%PATH%;%VCINSTALLDIR%\bin\amd64;%VCINSTALLDIR%\..\Common7\IDE;"%WindowsSdkDir%\x64";
> LINKCMD=%VCINSTALLDIR%\bin\amd64\link.exe

I have yet to use DMD64 on Windows, but I can tell you that 
user32.lib should be in the DMC lib directory. In my Environment 
settings, the LIB line looks like this:

LIB="%@P%\..\lib";\dm\lib

Maybe try that and see if it works?