Bug 11961 – Can't select CRT to link against

Can an option be added to DMD to choose which CRT should be used for linking? It seems DMD will always attempt to link to LIBCMT.LIB, but it's conventional to link LIBCMTD.LIB in debug builds, which can cause problems linking against C/C++ code built with MSC. If DMD will choose LIBCMT.LIB by default, it should probably choose LIBCMTD.LIB for debug builds. There are also others, non-multi-threaded, and also the DLL variants, which users may want to select. I think a compiler option is required so people can properly match their C++ code.

If you pass LIBCMTD.LIB on the command line it _should_ override the default.

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/dlang/dmd https://github.com/dlang/dmd/commit/19b02322007c88a79648cc46f5732f50d42c77fd fix issue 11961: allow selecting the MS C runtime to link against https://github.com/dlang/dmd/commit/2c11a0241b88be6eb5416812188c2ca6df196916 Merge pull request #6244 from rainers/select_mscrtlib fix issue 11961: allow selecting the MS C runtime to link against

Hooray!!

Commits pushed to scope at https://github.com/dlang/dmd https://github.com/dlang/dmd/commit/19b02322007c88a79648cc46f5732f50d42c77fd fix issue 11961: allow selecting the MS C runtime to link against https://github.com/dlang/dmd/commit/2c11a0241b88be6eb5416812188c2ca6df196916 Merge pull request #6244 from rainers/select_mscrtlib

Commits pushed to newCTFE at https://github.com/dlang/dmd https://github.com/dlang/dmd/commit/19b02322007c88a79648cc46f5732f50d42c77fd fix issue 11961: allow selecting the MS C runtime to link against https://github.com/dlang/dmd/commit/2c11a0241b88be6eb5416812188c2ca6df196916 Merge pull request #6244 from rainers/select_mscrtlib