Working around the 64k global types issue on windows

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 14 September 2014 at 23:11:12 UTC, E.S. Quinn wrote:
> I've got a program that, likely through a combination of use of
> GtkD and several variadic templates, has managed to bump its 
> head
> against the 64K global types limitation in the Windows version 
> of
> DMD. And unfortunately, neither GDC or LDC's current windows
> versions work well enough to compile my code, so at the moment
> I'm in a spot where I literally can't debug on windows.
>
> (And the program compiles and runs fine when I turn off adding
> debug symbols, and also compiles with debug symbols on linux, so
> I'm pretty sure I'm not doing anything grievously wrong)
>
> Is there any way to work around this issue on windows? Override
> the limit, somehow get the compiler to mangle template
> instantiations in a less verbose way?

Have you tried doing a 64-bit build (-m64)? I think the debug 
format is different (a .pdb file will be created), so it might 
not have that limitation.