On Saturday, 4 February 2023 at 17:02:11 UTC, Ferhat Kurtulmuş
wrote:
On Windows, dub's default behavior is to search for "foo.lib",
usually compiled with Visual Studio C/C++ compilers. However,
you have mingw-compiled "libfoo.a". I would not use
MinGW-compiled libs with d compilers. I don't know how d
compilers improved to support it, but in the past, I
experienced ABI compatibility issues with d and MinGW.
I can't link to the library `*.a` and I don't understand why?
```sh
PS C:\sources\pxe-restore\source> dmd -i app.d
C:\msys64\home\user\postgresql-15.1\installed\mingw64\lib\libpq.a
Error: unrecognized file extension a
```
Is there any way to convert the library `dll` to `lib`? Without
using Visual Studio?
On Saturday, 4 February 2023 at 17:02:11 UTC, Ferhat Kurtulmuş
wrote:
you will also need definitions of the functions in your d code
like `extern(C) void fooDB();`. I am not sure how
[importC](https://dlang.org/spec/importc.html) is usable with
PostgreSQL. In addition, there are some bindings in the dub
registry https://code.dlang.org/search?q=PostgreSQL.
At this stage, everything is fine. I'm using a project that I
build on Linux without any problems. All connections are set up
there.
