Windows static linking question

[Mike Parker]

On Tuesday, 27 April 2021 at 08:33:23 UTC, frame wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 April 2021 at 07:55:53 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 27 April 2021 at 07:41:28 UTC, frame wrote:
>>>
>>>> Did you mean to use rdmd and not dmd? 🤔
>>>
>>> I could not get it working using dmd. It gaves me LNK2001 
>>> linker errors. I honestly have no idea what rdmd else applies 
>>> to the linker (should inspect it with sysinternals).
>>>
>>
>> What is your dmd command line?
>
> not very different:
>
> ```
> dmd -L/DLL -L/OUT:common.dll -m64 -of=common.dll -I=sources 
> common.d
> ```

What specifically are the linker errors? Is it referring to 
`_DLLMainCRTStartup` or something else?

Also, I suspect the reason you're getting the renaming errors 
with rdmd is because you're passing both `-L/OUT:common.dll` and 
`-of=common.dll`. You should only need one of them (same goes for 
dmd). But I don't think rdmd is intended to actually compile a 
distributable binary. You should try to get this working with dmd 
to solve your linker errors.