On Monday, 11 January 2016 at 16:27:54 UTC, Jason Jeffory wrote:
Anyway, regarding the static libs. I used this on a Win64
project and it works:
"lflags" : [
"D:\\develop\\cairo\\cairo\\src\\release\\cairo-static.lib",
"D:\\develop\\cairo\\libpng\\libpng.lib",
"gdi32.lib"
],
Thanks, that works but
lflags is probably not the best way to do it. The "libs" field is
better. This will guarantee that the library is passed in a
compiler-appropriate manner across platforms. lflags is
compiler-specific.
1. *not a valid lib file* (glfw3.lib) ;/ Ok,
It's likely a COFF vs OMF issue.
2. What about 64? Does one have to maintain two branches for
that?
No. You might keep the libraries in separate directories or use a
naming convention (like appending -32 or -64 on the library
names) to distinguish them. Using DUB, you could then add
something like the following:
"libs-windows-dmd-x86": ["myWinLib-32"],
"libs-windows-dmd-x86_64": ["myWinLib-64"]
Drop the "windows" bit for cross-platform stuff. Of course, this
is dependent upon you passing -ax86_64 to DUB when you want to
compile for 64-bit
1. Trying windows link instead, remember having problems like
this in the past with optlink.
"LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file '_CMDLINE'"
;/
tried converting with coffimplib, not an import library.
Another rabbit hole to go down ;/ (Why do programmers make
programmers life hell?)
coffimplib [1] is for converting import libraries, not static
libraries. You can also use implib (part of the basic utilities
package [2]) to generate an import library if you have a DLL. You
should use coff2omf [3] to convert static libraries and object
files.
You can avoid all of these headaches by using dynamic bindings
like those at DerelictOrg [4] if they are available for the
libraries you use. Then the compile-time dependency on the C
library goes away and all you need is the DLL at runtime.
[1] http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/coffimplib.html
[2] http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html
[3] http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/coff2omf.html
[4] https://github.com/DerelictOrg
