simple gui on windows 11

[Lars Johansson]

On Friday, 23 January 2026 at 16:26:34 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> 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.

Thank you for your suggestion, please see my answer to Ricki 
Cattermole. I will try this a bit later. And stay with DMD/DUB 
for now. I need to take my baby steps.