Building D from source on Windows

[evilrat]

On Thursday, 16 January 2014 at 17:41:02 UTC, Andrew Edwards 
wrote:
> I'm having problems setting up my programming environment on 
> Windows and would really appreciate some assistance. Following 
> instructions for Windows at [1], everything builds fine, 
> however I cannot build with DMD afterwards because of linker 
> errors.
>
> The first such error said that the file 
> C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\link.exe was missing. I moved a copy of 
> link.exe from an from v2.064.2 to that location to try to 
> remedy the situation. It did not work I was bombarded with a 
> slew of errors like the one bellow:
>
>     ..\druntime\lib\druntime.lib(thread)
>     Error 35: Cannot Reach TARGET from FRAME at Relative 00041H 
> from Segment _TEXT
>     Segment _TEXT
>     FRAME  = Frame of Group FLAT 000000H
>     TARGET = External Symbol 
> _D4core6thread6Thread7sm_thisC4Core6thread6Thread 93D24H
>     FIXUP Type = Unknown Type
>     --- errorlevel 1342
>
> I am using Windows 7 Home Premium.
>
> [1] http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_DMD

is this x64? probably windows .lib's not linked such as kernel32 
and others...