https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17329
b2.t...@gmx.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |b2.t...@gmx.com --- Comment #1 from b2.t...@gmx.com --- (In reply to Rainer Koschnick from comment #0) > This is a rather weird issue that only pops up in a release build: > > std.file.FileException@D:\Dlang\dmd2\windows\bin\..\..\src\phobos\std\file. > d(733): > 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567 > 89012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234.cbr: The system cannot find > the file specified. > > Filenames up to 128 bytes work fine, anything above it throws this exception. > > Building in Visual Studio 2017, output is MS-COFF. The debug build works > fine. Try void removeFileEx(string filename) { import std.file : remove; return remove("\\?\" ~ filename); } Adding the prefix turns the filename into a fully qualified name and should have for effect to remove the MAX_PATH (260 chars) limitation. --