The linker used on Windows when installing DMD is pretty much decided on how your PC was setup.

• If you had Visual Studio installed on your windows for "Desktop Development with C++" before downloading DMD (from the site and setup), you will pretty have MSVC Linker as a default.
• If you installed DMD before Visual Studio without that extension, your default linker will be LLD linker.

There is 2 ways to change your linker for DMD:

1. Open a Command Prompt and type set LINKCMD=path\to\the\linker.
2. Open your D windows installation folder (usually C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin), and edit sc.ini. There will be [Environment]. Below [Environment], you just type the same thing as above. So basically, for my folder system, I can use both:

LLD:
LINKCMD=C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\lld-link.exe
MSVC:
LINKCMD=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.33.31629\bin\Hostx86\x64\link.exe

Notice that there is no "" (string literal), although you can find that on other places, that actually causes an error on windows.

This can be useful for making your program link faster (lld is well known for that). But there are cases that you're going to need the MSVC one. Specially today that I was getting the error while trying to build with LLD:

Error 0xc00007b “Application was unable to start correctly”

This was solved after changing my linker back to MSVC.

On Tuesday, 1 November 2022 at 16:17:08 UTC, Hipreme wrote:

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