Odd __acrtused error with WinMain

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Andrej Mitrovic (@AndrejMitrovic) reported this on 2013-05-30T04:38:17Z

Transferred from https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10213

Description

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import core.sys.windows.windows;

extern (Windows)
int WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpCmdLine, int iCmdShow)
{
    version(OK)
    {
        try
        {
            return 0;
        }
        catch (Throwable)
        {
            return 0;
        }
    }
    else
    version(OK2)
    {
        import std.stdio;
        return 0;
    }
    else
    version(FAIL)
    {
        return 0;
    }
}
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$ dmd -version=OK -L-Subsystem:Windows:4 test.d
> 

$ dmd -version=OK2 -L-Subsystem:Windows:4 test.d
> 

$ dmd -version=FAIL -L-Subsystem:Windows:4 test.d
> OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 8.00.12
> Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989-2010  All rights reserved.
> http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/optlink.html
> OPTLINK : Warning 23: No Stack
> test.obj(test)
>  Error 42: Symbol Undefined __acrtused
> OPTLINK : Warning 134: No Start Address

The error seems to go away if you either introduce a try/catch or an import into any 'std' module.

Obviously the chances of having no imports and no try/catch in a module implementing WinMain are very low, but the behavior is strange.

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