Trouble Compiling DMD, Druntime, Phobos on Windows

[Meta]

On Friday, 14 February 2014 at 01:58:13 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
wrote:
> On 2/13/2014 8:09 PM, Meta wrote:
>> I'm using Windows 7 x64, but compiling 32-bit DMD. DMD 
>> compiles fine,
>> but the linker warns about a "Warning 9: Unknown Option : LA". 
>> After
>> that, when trying to compile Druntime, DMD chokes with this 
>> error:
>>
>
> Sounds like you're using an outdated OPTLINK. The /LA flag was 
> added relatively recently and the newer DMD buildscripts use it.
>
> Try updating your copy of DMC, maybe a newer one will have the 
> up-to-date OPTLINK. Or just replace your DMC's OPTLINK with the 
> one that comes with DMD 2.064.2:
>
> http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2013/dmd.2.064.2.zip
>
>
>> "Assertion Failure: 'impl' on line 4930 in file 'mtype.c'".
>>
>> I looked in the file, but all I could find on line 4930 was:
>>
>> int TypeAArray::isZeroInit(Loc loc)
>> {
>>     return true;
>> }
>>
>
> Not sure what's up with that one, but I don't have any 
> familiarity with mtype. Maybe it's just fallout from the 
> earlier error?

Ah, yes, there's a rogue outdated OPTLINK hiding out somewhere in 
my path. That should fix it, I think.