On Windows 7 I have built dmd (using the vcxproj), druntime (win64.mak) and phobos (win64.mak).

I went into sc.ini and set the LINKCMD to point to Visual Studio 12.0's linker.

When I try to compile anything with dmd, I get

    LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'test,,nul,user32+kernel132/noi;.obj'

I'm pretty sure else is ok as I didn't see any errors while I was building. What can I try next?

On Tuesday, 25 November 2014 at 21:22:24 UTC, Vlad Levenfeld wrote:
> On Windows 7 I have built dmd (using the vcxproj), druntime (win64.mak) and phobos (win64.mak).
>
> I went into sc.ini and set the LINKCMD to point to Visual Studio 12.0's linker.
>
> When I try to compile anything with dmd, I get
>
>     LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'test,,nul,user32+kernel132/noi;.obj'
>
> I'm pretty sure else is ok as I didn't see any errors while I was building. What can I try next?

Solved it by pointing to the dmc linker instead. Now I have

LNK1104: cannot open file 'shell32.lib'

I'm compiling with -m64... couldn't compile 32-bit phobos because of missing zlib.

On Tuesday, 25 November 2014 at 23:08:07 UTC, Vlad Levenfeld wrote:
> On Tuesday, 25 November 2014 at 21:22:24 UTC, Vlad Levenfeld wrote:
>> On Windows 7 I have built dmd (using the vcxproj), druntime (win64.mak) and phobos (win64.mak).
>>
>> I went into sc.ini and set the LINKCMD to point to Visual Studio 12.0's linker.
>>
>> When I try to compile anything with dmd, I get
>>
>>    LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'test,,nul,user32+kernel132/noi;.obj'
>>
>> I'm pretty sure else is ok as I didn't see any errors while I was building. What can I try next?
>
> Solved it by pointing to the dmc linker instead. Now I have
>
> LNK1104: cannot open file 'shell32.lib'
>
> I'm compiling with -m64... couldn't compile 32-bit phobos because of missing zlib.

Just so we're clear, you're trying to compile for Win64 COFF?  It sounds like you don't have something about your environment set up right, as Win64 requires the MSVC toolchain and some configuration if you use the dmd zip.  Did you install from the exe installer or are you using the zip?

The dmc linker is not going to work, as it only does OMF.  You may find this page helpful, though it may be a bit outdated:

http://wiki.dlang.org/Installing_DMD_on_64-bit_Windows_7_%28COFF-compatible%29

On Wednesday, 26 November 2014 at 01:35:20 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Tuesday, 25 November 2014 at 23:08:07 UTC, Vlad Levenfeld wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 25 November 2014 at 21:22:24 UTC, Vlad Levenfeld wrote:
>>> On Windows 7 I have built dmd (using the vcxproj), druntime (win64.mak) and phobos (win64.mak).
>>>
>>> I went into sc.ini and set the LINKCMD to point to Visual Studio 12.0's linker.
>>>
>>> When I try to compile anything with dmd, I get
>>>
>>>   LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'test,,nul,user32+kernel132/noi;.obj'
>>>
>>> I'm pretty sure else is ok as I didn't see any errors while I was building. What can I try next?
>>
>> Solved it by pointing to the dmc linker instead. Now I have
>>
>> LNK1104: cannot open file 'shell32.lib'
>>
>> I'm compiling with -m64... couldn't compile 32-bit phobos because of missing zlib.
>
> Just so we're clear, you're trying to compile for Win64 COFF?  It sounds like you don't have something about your environment set up right, as Win64 requires the MSVC toolchain and some configuration if you use the dmd zip.  Did you install from the exe installer or are you using the zip?
>
> The dmc linker is not going to work, as it only does OMF.  You may find this page helpful, though it may be a bit outdated:
>
> http://wiki.dlang.org/Installing_DMD_on_64-bit_Windows_7_%28COFF-compatible%29

I'm compiling the latest build from github.

(I normally stay up to date with the current builds on 64bit Debian and everything works more or less without a hitch there, but now I need to get some of my tools working in a Windows environment)

I'm not really sure what my options are regarding the COFF or what they mean, 64-bit is really the only requirement (mostly because I can't get the 32-bit stuff to compile).

I've got Visual Studio Premium, I tried to install from the exe at one point and got Visual D in the process (and this did work, except that the code I need is built against the latest dmd/druntime/phobos builds).

Installing it from the instructions, IIRC, also worked for me, but again, the version.

So I used the dmd visual studio project to build dmd, then built druntime and phobos with Digital Mars make;

I had previously tried to use dmc to build dmd but couldn't get it to work.

Anyway, I manage to build successfully but then I get this linker error when I try to run dmd on some test.d consisting of void main (){}.

I've gone into sc.ini and pulled out the ;VC2012 comments to expose the LIB instruction (to fix a different problem) and this is the point that I've gotten stuck at.

On Wednesday, 26 November 2014 at 04:10:08 UTC, Vlad Levenfeld wrote:
>
> I'm compiling the latest build from github.
>
> (I normally stay up to date with the current builds on 64bit Debian and everything works more or less without a hitch there, but now I need to get some of my tools working in a Windows environment)
>
> I'm not really sure what my options are regarding the COFF or what they mean, 64-bit is really the only requirement (mostly because I can't get the 32-bit stuff to compile).
>
> I've got Visual Studio Premium, I tried to install from the exe at one point and got Visual D in the process (and this did work, except that the code I need is built against the latest dmd/druntime/phobos builds).

I see, so the problem appears to be that you're trying to compile D from git to produce Win64 builds.  COFF is the binary format used by Microsoft for their MSVC runtime, and dmd only supports Win64 with COFF, the Microsoft linker, and MSVC.  If you're okay with 32-bit dmd from git, which by default uses the Digital Mars C runtime, the Digital Mars linker called optlink, and the OMF binary format, these instructions should work for you, as they did for me:

http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_DMD#Windows_2

> Installing it from the instructions, IIRC, also worked for me, but again, the version.
>
> So I used the dmd visual studio project to build dmd, then built druntime and phobos with Digital Mars make;
>
> I had previously tried to use dmc to build dmd but couldn't get it to work.
>
> Anyway, I manage to build successfully but then I get this linker error when I try to run dmd on some test.d consisting of void main (){}.
>
> I've gone into sc.ini and pulled out the ;VC2012 comments to expose the LIB instruction (to fix a different problem) and this is the point that I've gotten stuck at.

If you still want to get Win64 from git working, I advise you to use a release build of dmd from the zip and set it up to get code compiling for Win64, ie make sure you understand what environment variables need to be set to use the MSVC runtime and linker.  Then, compile dmd from git using dmc and the instructions linked above, before using the same Win64 environment variables to compile your code.

If you still have problems, you may want to look at the scripts and Win64-specific patches that Brad uses on the auto-tester to continuously build dmd for Win64:

https://github.com/braddr/d-tester/tree/master/client/src

On Wednesday, 26 November 2014 at 04:10:08 UTC, Vlad Levenfeld wrote:
> So I used the dmd visual studio project to build dmd

It can be outdated, because dmd release is built by dmc, not vc.