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Issue 19901 - importing export symbols causes link errors
Summary: importing export symbols causes link errors
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: D
Classification: Unclassified
Component: dmd (show other issues)
Version: D2
Hardware: x86 Windows
: P1 regression
Assignee: No Owner
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Keywords: pull
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Reported: 2019-05-25 08:46 UTC by Rainer Schuetze
Modified: 2019-05-25 11:46 UTC (History)
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Description Rainer Schuetze 2019-05-25 08:46:03 UTC 
Building the mydll example in dmd\samples\mydll results in a link error:

>dmd -m32 -ofmydll.dll -L/IMPLIB mydll\mydll.d mydll\dll.d mydll\mydll.def
>dmd -m32 -ofdlltest.exe mydll\test.d mydll\mydll.di mydll.lib
OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 8.00.17
Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989-2013  All rights reserved.
http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/optlink.html
dlltest.obj(dlltest)
 Error 42: Symbol Undefined _D5mydll8dllprintFZv
Error: linker exited with status 1
Comment 1 Dlang Bot 2019-05-25 08:54:01 UTC 
@rainers created dlang/dmd pull request #9885 "fix issue 19901 - importing export symbols causes link errors (Win32)" fixing this issue:

- fix issue 19901 - importing export symbols causes link errors (Win32)
  
  build and run the mydll example also for -m64 and -m32mscoff

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/9885
Comment 2 Dlang Bot 2019-05-25 11:46:00 UTC 
dlang/dmd pull request #9885 "fix issue 19901 - importing export symbols causes link errors (Win32)" was merged into stable:

- d16d4c5ecf92fb52eee28cb8ab2c4d1b9f1544b0 by Rainer Schuetze:
  fix issue 19901 - importing export symbols causes link errors (Win32)
  
  build and run the mydll example also for -m64 and -m32mscoff

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/9885