Minimal environment for linking Win32 windowed 64bit exes usind LDC2

[realhet]

On Friday, 18 July 2025 at 15:42:23 UTC, realhet wrote:
> On Friday, 18 July 2025 at 15:25:04 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>> ldc has libs in lib/mingw

Ok I was doing too much:

I uninstalled the whole sdk and it turned out It works 
miraculously just by itself:
`ldc2 win32_app.d -L/subsystem:windows` as simple of that, very 
cool!

And with the more complicated project, I think it also worked, 
but the error was just generated by static libraries I'm using:
libwebp.lib
turbojpeg-static.lib

Inside these binaries I found hundreds of this text: 
/DEFAULTLIB:"LIBCMT"

And the linker says this error as well:
lld-link: error: could not open 'libcmt.lib': no such file or 
directory
lld-link: error: could not open 'LIBCMT.lib': no such file or 
directory
Error: linking with LLD failed

There is no libcmt.lib on my HDD at all.  There was 
ntuc_libcmt.lib in the windows SDK, but I uninstalled that so the 
mingW can be active.

(Btw, these are the stuff that is turning people backwards from 
systems programming and turn them right into a browser's 
comfortable console.  But not me: I spend 1 or 2 days on this 
every year, lol.  Even I hate this 1980s style command line hell, 
I know this worth the struggle. :D)