Bug 19445 – Linking to lib under c:\Program Files (x86) does not work in Visual D

Hello, I'm absolutely new to D and I wanted to say: wow! What a great toolchain so far. Anyway, I am testing sslsocket.d from https://github.com/adamdruppe/arsd. I was trying to link to libressl libraries that are stored under C:\Program Files (x86)\LibreSSL\lib. I go into Project Properties->Configuration Properties->Linker->General and add the Library files through the file selector. The value in the text box is: "..\..\..\..\..\..\Program Files (x86)\LibreSSL\lib\ssl.lib *Note the solitary double quote. The linker error is thus: ------ Build started: Project: DApp1, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------ Building Win32\Debug\DApp1.exe... "Win32\Debug\DApp1.obj" /OUT:"Win32\Debug\DApp1.exe" ""..\..\..\..\..\..\Program Files (x86)\LibreSSL\lib\ssl.lib" >> C:\Users\russh\source\repos\DApp1\DApp1\Win32\Debug\DApp1.link.rsp LINK : warning LNK4001: no object files specified; libraries used LINK : warning LNK4068: /MACHINE not specified; defaulting to X86 LINK : fatal error LNK1159: no output file specified Building Win32\Debug\DApp1.exe failed! Details saved as "file://C:\Users\russh\source\repos\DApp1\DApp1\Win32\Debug\DApp1.buildlog.html" ========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ========== I tried various quoting machinations to no avail. I am reporting this error because I managed to build by linking from a different directory that has no spaces in the path. I also noted that the library search path box produced the same single quote when I tried with program files (x86). Cheers, Russ

Oh, sorry, I am using VS 2017 (15.8.1) and VisualD 0.47.0.

Thanks for the report. Indeed, selecting a library with the file selector should add a pair of quotes if there are spaces in the name. I can reproduce it not working in that case, too. The current workaround would be to use the short names (e.g. "progra~2")without quotes but these are not portable to other systems. Quoting the library search path seems ok, too, so you can also add the library without path and add its path as a search path (with the trailing quote).

fix released in https://github.com/dlang/visuald/releases/tag/v0.48.1