Hi,

I am trying to build default main() provided with VisualD console app template.

I am using Visual Studio 2012 Update 4 and I am not able to build in x64 mode with error:

------ Build started: Project: ConsoleApp6, Configuration: Debug x64 ------
Building Debug\ConsoleApp6.exe...
OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 8.00.13
Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989-2010  All rights reserved.
http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/optlink.html
OPTLINK : Warning 9: Unknown Option : OUT
OPTLINK : Error 12: Number Overflow : 
Building Debug\ConsoleApp6.exe failed!
Details saved as "file://c:\users\bravo\documents\visual studio 2012\Projects\ConsoleApp6\ConsoleApp6\Debug\ConsoleApp6.buildlog.html"
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

On 24.01.2014 14:00, Szymon Gatner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to build default main() provided with VisualD console app
> template.
>
> I am using Visual Studio 2012 Update 4 and I am not able to build in x64
> mode with error:
>
> ------ Build started: Project: ConsoleApp6, Configuration: Debug x64 ------
> Building Debug\ConsoleApp6.exe...
> OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 8.00.13
> Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989-2010  All rights reserved.
> http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/optlink.html
> OPTLINK : Warning 9: Unknown Option : OUT
> OPTLINK : Error 12: Number Overflow : 
> Building Debug\ConsoleApp6.exe failed!
> Details saved as "file://c:\users\bravo\documents\visual studio
> 2012\Projects\ConsoleApp6\ConsoleApp6\Debug\ConsoleApp6.buildlog.html"
> ========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

This sounds similar to what Arjan reported just today: somehow optlink is preferred over the MS linker (unfortunately they are both called link.exe). Please check linker path on the "Projects and Solutions->Visual D settings->DMD directories->x64" options page. It should have an absolute path to avoid optlink being found first via the PATH environment variable.

If this doesn't reveal anything, please post the buildlog or the *.build.cmd file in the output directory.

On Monday, 10 February 2014 at 19:05:05 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
> This sounds similar to what Arjan reported just today: somehow optlink is preferred over the MS linker (unfortunately they are both called link.exe). Please check linker path on the "Projects and Solutions->Visual D settings->DMD directories->x64" options page. It should have an absolute path to avoid optlink being found first via the PATH environment variable.
>
> If this doesn't reveal anything, please post the buildlog or the *.build.cmd file in the output directory.

I'm having this problem as well, I've set "Projects and Solutions->Visual D settings->DMD
> directories->x64" to the explicit path of the link.exe ("C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\link.exe") with override sc.ini ticked. I'm still getting the error listed. Is there a solution or fix?

On 11.03.2017 14:12, ixid wrote:
> On Monday, 10 February 2014 at 19:05:05 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>> This sounds similar to what Arjan reported just today: somehow optlink
>> is preferred over the MS linker (unfortunately they are both called
>> link.exe). Please check linker path on the "Projects and
>> Solutions->Visual D settings->DMD directories->x64" options page. It
>> should have an absolute path to avoid optlink being found first via
>> the PATH environment variable.
>>
>> If this doesn't reveal anything, please post the buildlog or the
>> *.build.cmd file in the output directory.
>
> I'm having this problem as well, I've set "Projects and
> Solutions->Visual D settings->DMD
>> directories->x64" to the explicit path of the link.exe
>> ("C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\link.exe") with override sc.ini ticked. I'm
>> still getting the error listed. Is there a solution or fix?

If you want to build for x64, you must use the MS linker. A usual override for VS2012 would be

c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin\amd64\link.exe