On Tuesday, 21 October 2014 at 09:38:55 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On 10/21/2014 3:41 PM, Edn wrote:
I'm trying to compile a simple program using D and GLFW. I
heard that in
order to use Deimos GLFW you will have to compile
https://github.com/glfw/glfw using the digitalmars c++
compiler since
dmd only supports OMF?
On Windows, when compiling as 32-bit, the compiler makes use of
the OPTLINK linker that ships with it. OPTLINK only supports
OMF. So you can compile a C library with dmc (which also uses
OPTLINK) or you can take a library in COFF format and run it
through an object converter (like coff2omf or Agner Fog's
Object Converter[1]) to convert it to OMF.
When compiling with DMD as 64-bit, the compiler makes use of
the Visual Studio toolchain, so you can use 64-bit COFF
libraries out of the box after you install the VS tools.
If you are linking with the import library instead of a static
library, the same idea applies. But in that case you can run a
tool like coffimplib on the DLL to create an import library in
OMF format, then link with it.
Both coff2omf and coffimplib are available, along with other
useful utilities, as part of the Digital Mars Extended Utility
Package [2] which is available for sale at [3].
This problem does not exist on Linux or Mac as DMD uses the GCC
backend for those platforms.
[1] http://www.agner.org/optimize/#objconv
[2] http://www.digitalmars.com/eup.html
[3] http://www.digitalmars.com/shop.html
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So if I compile DMD as x64 I can then use the libraries for VC120
that comes with the glfw windows binaries ?
http://www.glfw.org/download.html
and then compile using :
dmd -d main.d glfw3.lib
