I'm having problems setting up my programming environment on Windows and would really appreciate some assistance. Following instructions for Windows at [1], everything builds fine, however I cannot build with DMD afterwards because of linker errors.

The first such error said that the file C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\link.exe was missing. I moved a copy of link.exe from an from v2.064.2 to that location to try to remedy the situation. It did not work I was bombarded with a slew of errors like the one bellow:

    ..\druntime\lib\druntime.lib(thread)
    Error 35: Cannot Reach TARGET from FRAME at Relative 00041H from Segment _TEXT
    Segment _TEXT
    FRAME  = Frame of Group FLAT 000000H
    TARGET = External Symbol _D4core6thread6Thread7sm_thisC4Core6thread6Thread 93D24H
    FIXUP Type = Unknown Type
    --- errorlevel 1342

I am using Windows 7 Home Premium.

[1] http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_DMD

On Thursday, 16 January 2014 at 17:41:02 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote:
> I'm having problems setting up my programming environment on Windows and would really appreciate some assistance. Following instructions for Windows at [1], everything builds fine, however I cannot build with DMD afterwards because of linker errors.
>
> The first such error said that the file C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\link.exe was missing. I moved a copy of link.exe from an from v2.064.2 to that location to try to remedy the situation. It did not work I was bombarded with a slew of errors like the one bellow:
>
>     ..\druntime\lib\druntime.lib(thread)
>     Error 35: Cannot Reach TARGET from FRAME at Relative 00041H from Segment _TEXT
>     Segment _TEXT
>     FRAME  = Frame of Group FLAT 000000H
>     TARGET = External Symbol _D4core6thread6Thread7sm_thisC4Core6thread6Thread 93D24H
>     FIXUP Type = Unknown Type
>     --- errorlevel 1342
>
> I am using Windows 7 Home Premium.
>
> [1] http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_DMD

is this x64? probably windows .lib's not linked such as kernel32 and others...

16-Jan-2014 21:41, Andrew Edwards пишет:
> I'm having problems setting up my programming environment on Windows and
> would really appreciate some assistance. Following instructions for
> Windows at [1], everything builds fine, however I cannot build with DMD
> afterwards because of linker errors.
>
> The first such error said that the file C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\link.exe
> was missing. I moved a copy of link.exe from an from v2.064.2 to that
> location to try to remedy the situation. It did not work I was bombarded
> with a slew of errors like the one bellow:
>

I'd suggest getting a fresh optlink. Walter posted ftp links to it not long ago (DigitalMars public FTP).

it would help to know when exactly this problem comes up. I guess bulding Phobos?
>      ..\druntime\lib\druntime.lib(thread)
>      Error 35: Cannot Reach TARGET from FRAME at Relative 00041H from
> Segment _TEXT
>      Segment _TEXT
>      FRAME  = Frame of Group FLAT 000000H
>      TARGET = External Symbol
> _D4core6thread6Thread7sm_thisC4Core6thread6Thread 93D24H
>      FIXUP Type = Unknown Type
>      --- errorlevel 1342
>
It could also mean that you are trying to link x64 object files with optlink.Being dump the tool thinks that it's a 32bit object just horribly broken. x64 requires its own section in sc.ini and MS Visual Studio with.

Try specifying model directly:
make MODEL=32 -fwin32.mak

and if it doesn't help clean it first and try again:
make MODEL=32 -fwin32.mak clean
make MODEL=32 -fwin32.mak

Also - always first build druntime, then Phobos. Always with the same MODEL.

I've found that to cleanly build x64 and 32 on windows I have to run clean between builds (unlike in Linux/MacOS).


-- 
Dmitry Olshansky

On 1/16/14, 1:10 PM, evilrat wrote:
> On Thursday, 16 January 2014 at 17:41:02 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote:

>> I am using Windows 7 Home Premium.
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_DMD
>
> is this x64? probably windows .lib's not linked such as kernel32 and
> others...

Yes. Win7x64

On 1/16/14, 2:03 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> 16-Jan-2014 21:41, Andrew Edwards пишет:
>
> it would help to know when exactly this problem comes up. I guess
> bulding Phobos?

dmd, druntime, and phobos all build properly. The problem comes up when trying to build with dmd.

>>
> It could also mean that you are trying to link x64 object files with
> optlink.Being dump the tool thinks that it's a 32bit object just
> horribly broken. x64 requires its own section in sc.ini and MS Visual
> Studio with.

I took the sc.ini file from v2.064.2 and it does have that section. I don't however have Visual Studio installed so that might be contributing to the problem.

> Try specifying model directly:
> make MODEL=32 -fwin32.mak
>
> and if it doesn't help clean it first and try again:
> make MODEL=32 -fwin32.mak clean
> make MODEL=32 -fwin32.mak
>
> Also - always first build druntime, then Phobos. Always with the same
> MODEL.
>
> I've found that to cleanly build x64 and 32 on windows I have to run
> clean between builds (unlike in Linux/MacOS).

Ok. Got it, I'll give this a try as soon as I can get back to my system.