Bug 18510 – [Beta 2.079] lld-link.exe fails to open obj file in subpath

C:\>C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\dmd.exe -ofdub.exe sub\dub.obj -m32mscoff -v predefs DigitalMars Windows LittleEndian D_Version2 all D_InlineAsm D_InlineAs m_X86 X86 Win32 CRuntime_Microsoft assert D_HardFloat binary C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\dmd.exe version v2.079.0-beta.1 config C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\sc.ini DFLAGS -IC:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\..\..\src\phobos -IC:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\..\..\src\druntime\import C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\lld-link.exe /NOLOGO "sub\dub" /OUT:"dub.exe" /OPT:NOICF C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\lld-link.exe: error: could not open sub\dub: no such file or directory C:\D\dmd2\windows\bin\lld-link.exe: warning: /machine is not specified. x64 is assumed error: entry point must be defined Error: linker exited with status 1 ---- Weirdly the .obj suffix is stripped from the command line, might be a leftover from optlink.

Not automatically appending the ".obj" seems to be an incompatibility with the MS linker.

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/dlang/dmd https://github.com/dlang/dmd/commit/c75ca864f10a1513780172aca5472e8f885f8a87 fix issue 18510 - lld-link.exe fails to open obj file in subpath LLD doesn't assume .obj automatically for files with '\' in the name, but there is no good reason to strip the extension to begin with https://github.com/dlang/dmd/commit/22aeea76549cb6f5dbf0460981f3e0661e754a68 Merge pull request #7946 from rainers/issue18510 fix issue 18510 - lld-link.exe fails to open obj file in subpath