simple gui on windows 11

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Friday, 23 January 2026 at 15:00:53 UTC, Lars Johansson wrote:
> arsd.minigui won't compile link gives me I got lld-link: error: 
> /manifestdependency: is not allowed in .drectve


That looks like an ancient linker, lld-link added support for 
that in version 14, released about four years ago.

...... the latest dmd still has lld-link version 9.0. well 
there's your problem lol. the opend release comes with a newer 
linker: 
https://github.com/opendlang/opend/releases/download/CI/opend-latest-windows-x64.7z


Or with your existing compiler, try compiling your minigui 
program with the argument to dmd `-version=minigui_no_manifest` 
and it should opt out of that. You'll lose some of the Windows 
theming features but they're non-essential.