• Szymon Gatner (18/18) Jan 24 2014 Hi,
• Rainer Schuetze (9/25) Feb 10 2014 This sounds similar to what Arjan reported just today: somehow optlink
• ixid (4/16) Mar 11 2017 I'm having this problem as well, I've set "Projects and
• Rainer Schuetze (4/19) Mar 12 2017 If you want to build for x64, you must use the MS linker. A usual

"Szymon Gatner" <noemail gmail.com> writes:

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 
==========

Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:

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.

ixid <adamsibson gmail.com> writes:

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?

Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:

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