I've got a particularly painful problem when trying to compile and link. I'm try to build a windows service using example code from
https://github.com/tylerjensen/WindowsServiceInD , but am running into problems. If I don't include any paths or modify any project settings then I get missing symbol errors for RegisterServiceCtrlHandlerExA despite the fact that advapi32.lib is in C:\D\dmd2\windows\lib so I've added the advapi32.lib in the local SDK as well as the path for the SDK libraries to the project settings, but now I'm getting a new error:
set PATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\\Common7\IDE;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\\bin;C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin;%PATH%
set DMD_LIB=C:\D\dmd2\windows\lib;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Lib\10.0.10586.0\um\x86;"c:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Lib\10.0.10586.0\um\x86\"
dmd -g -debug -X -Xf"Debug\FileSearcher.json" -IC:\Users\gjgowey\Documents\GitHub\bindings -deps="Debug\FileSearcher.dep" -c -of"Debug\FileSearcher.obj" installer.d svcbase.d fsmonsvc.d main.d
if errorlevel 1 goto reportError
set LIB="C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\..\lib"
echo. > C:\Users\gjgowey\DOCUME~1\VISUAL~1\Projects\FILESE~1\FILESE~1\Debug\FILESE~1.LNK
echo "Debug\FileSearcher.obj","Debug\FileSearcher.exe","Debug\FileSearcher.map",user32.lib+ >> C:\Users\gjgowey\DOCUME~1\VISUAL~1\Projects\FILESE~1\FILESE~1\Debug\FILESE~1.LNK
echo kernel32.lib+ >> C:\Users\gjgowey\DOCUME~1\VISUAL~1\Projects\FILESE~1\FILESE~1\Debug\FILESE~1.LNK
echo "c:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Lib\10.0.10586.0\um\x86\"+ >> C:\Users\gjgowey\DOCUME~1\VISUAL~1\Projects\FILESE~1\FILESE~1\Debug\FILESE~1.LNK
echo C:\D\dmd2\windows\lib\+ >> C:\Users\gjgowey\DOCUME~1\VISUAL~1\Projects\FILESE~1\FILESE~1\Debug\FILESE~1.LNK
echo C:\Program\+ >> C:\Users\gjgowey\DOCUME~1\VISUAL~1\Projects\FILESE~1\FILESE~1\Debug\FILESE~1.LNK
echo Files\+ >> C:\Users\gjgowey\DOCUME~1\VISUAL~1\Projects\FILESE~1\FILESE~1\Debug\FILESE~1.LNK
echo (x86)\Windows\+ >> C:\Users\gjgowey\DOCUME~1\VISUAL~1\Projects\FILESE~1\FILESE~1\Debug\FILESE~1.LNK
echo Kits\10\Lib\10.0.10586.0\um\x86\/NOMAP/CO/NOI/DELEXE >> C:\Users\gjgowey\DOCUME~1\VISUAL~1\Projects\FILESE~1\FILESE~1\Debug\FILESE~1.LNK
"C:\Program Files (x86)\VisualD\pipedmd.exe" -deps Debug\FileSearcher.lnkdep C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\link.exe @C:\Users\gjgowey\DOCUME~1\VISUAL~1\Projects\FILESE~1\FILESE~1\Debug\FILESE~1.LNK
if errorlevel 1 goto reportError
if not exist "Debug\FileSearcher.exe" (echo "Debug\FileSearcher.exe" not created! && goto reportError)
goto noError
:reportError
echo Building Debug\FileSearcher.exe failed!
:noError