std.stdio.File.seek error

[stunaep via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 14 March 2016 at 07:15:01 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote:
> On Monday, 14 March 2016 at 05:24:48 UTC, stunaep wrote:
>> On Monday, 14 March 2016 at 03:07:05 UTC, Nicholas Wilson 
>> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> I'm currently on windows 7. The code you gave me prints 022. 
>> It's weird because it always tries to convert longs to ints 
>> and I think that is weird because the function uses a c_long.
>>> [...]
>>
>> It wont even compile if I try giving it a long
>>> [...]
>>
>> I also tried giving it a c_long, but this line
>>>[...]
>> gives this error for some reason...
>>> [...]
>>
>> It's like c_longs are not longs at all...
>
> c_long maps to the target long which evidently is not 64-bit on 
> win7
> meaning you can't seek longer than int.max.
>  if you cant't find _fseeki64 try looking in the windows 
> section.
> Glad you got it working on arch.
>
> Nic

It looks like _fseeki64 is in the nightly build but not dmd 
2.070.2; However, the nightly build says std.stdio and std.conv 
are deprecated and I cant use them.