struggling to link against a C global in D (win/vs2017)

[DanielG]

On Monday, 29 October 2018 at 00:16:38 UTC, Stanislav Blinov 
wrote:
> Should it be extern(Windows), perchance?.. (I haven't D on 
> Windows for ages).

The stdcall calling convention? I think that would only matter 
for the function, and indeed, trying that breaks the function 
being able to link** (and the variable remains broken)

** in 32-bit mscoff mode - no effect on 64-bit (where I think 
stdcall isn't applicable)