Hi,
I'm new to D and trying my hands on a few simple things. Being
able to build a Windows DLL with betterC enabled is of particular
interest to me, as I'd need it for a project that I'd like to do
in D.
I'm trying to follow some examples, such as
[this](https://wiki.dlang.org/Win32_DLLs_in_D) and
[this](https://tekmoji.com/?post=Calling%20D%20(dlang)%20shared%20libs%20from%20Python%20on%20Windows), and they compile without `-betterC`, but fail with link errors when using the switch.
example DLL, or see 2nd link for one without the mixin
```D
//WindowsApp1.d
module WindowsApp1;
import core.sys.windows.windows;
import core.sys.windows.dll;
export extern (C) void main()
{
import core.stdc.stdio : printf;
printf("Hello betterC\n");
}
mixin SimpleDllMain;
```
then
```
dmd -m64 -shared -betterC WindowsApp1.d
```
yields error:
```
error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
_D4core3sys7windows3dll18dll_process_attachFPvbZb referenced in
function DllMain
error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
_D4core3sys7windows3dll18dll_process_detachFPvbZv referenced in
function DllMain
error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
_D4core3sys7windows3dll17dll_thread_attachFbbZb referenced in
function DllMain
error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
_D4core3sys7windows3dll17dll_thread_detachFbbZb referenced in
function DllMain
```
I'm not a complete beginner to programming, so I'm guessing the
linker is missing a library, but as I'm not familiar with D yet,
and these are fairly basic examples that I expected to run
without a hitch, I'm a bit confused as to what I should be doing.
Shouldn't the system modules provide the link targets themselves?
Should I add a parameter to include a windows system library?
BtW, I've tried compiling from the command line and from Visual
Studio using the visuald extension - I'm assuming the extension
makes sure the environment variables are set correctly. When
using dmd from the command line, I also tried invoking
`dmd2vars64.bat` and `vcvars64.bat` before running dmd.exe to
ensure the variables are set. In any case, the build process is
successful without `betterC`, so I'm assuming the path/variables
are set correctly.
