dmd linker and compiler

[Frustrated]

On Monday, 25 November 2013 at 20:09:20 UTC, Frustrated wrote:
> On Monday, 25 November 2013 at 17:44:43 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan 
> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Nope. In any case that was one of the original ways and it 
> didn't work, even when I put it as the hard path. Optilink 
> doesn't even look for the lib in dm\lib. I've used process 
> monitor to see what it's doing and it only looks for the lib in 
> the project dir regardless of where I tell it to in sc.ini.

I was able to solve the x86 issue as it seems

>>> WindowsSdkDir=C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows 
>>> Kits\8.1\Lib\win8\um

should have been 8.0 as the path is different for 8.1.

I still get the same issue for x64 though. Not sure where it is 
getting dmd.obj at(not sure if it's the obj file for the project 
or something else).