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digitalmars.D - [DMD Request] dmd -l switch for libraries

reply Nick <Nick_member pathlink.com> writes:
It's currently a bit awkward to use D libraries with dmd on linux. Say I have a
library called libmylib.a which is made with D. To compile the program 'myprog'
you would expect that

dmd -L-lmylib myprog.d

would work, but it doesn't. It produces

gcc myprog.o -o myprog -lphobos -lpthread -lm -Xlinker -lmylib

but since parameter order matters when linking with gcc, this won't link since
mylib depends on phobos. The correct place for the '-lmylib' parameter would be
between '-o myprog' and '-lphobos'.

So, Walter, can you please oh please make a -l switch which puts the library
parameter to gcc in the correct place? :)

(I know a workaround is to write dmd myprog -L-lmylib -L-lphobos, but in some
cases you would have to add pthread and m as well. And besides, "-L-l" looks a
bit clumsy, doesn't it?)

Nick
Feb 23 2005
parent reply =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb algonet.se> writes:
Nick wrote:


 (I know a workaround is to write dmd myprog -L-lmylib -L-lphobos,


you should also be able to use: dmd myprog.d libmylib.a ?


 And besides, "-L-l" looks a bit clumsy, doesn't it?)


Not as a clumsy as "-L-L/home/yourname/dmd/lib"... :-)

--anders
Feb 23 2005
parent reply "Alex Stevenson" <ans104 cs.york.ac.uk> writes:
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:29:54 +0100, Anders F Björklund <afb algonet.se>  
wrote:


 Nick wrote:


 (I know a workaround is to write dmd myprog -L-lmylib -L-lphobos,


 you should also be able to use: dmd myprog.d libmylib.a ?


 And besides, "-L-l" looks a bit clumsy, doesn't it?)


 Not as a clumsy as "-L-L/home/yourname/dmd/lib"... :-)

 --anders


Ah... So that's how you do it... Used dmd for a crypto practical at uni  
today but couldn't get dmd to pass phobos location to the linker... Never  
would have guessed -L-L~/dmd/lib

btw - the linux installation page  
(http://www.digitalmars.com/d/dcompiler.html) tells me to copy libphobos.a  
to /usr/lib and dmd.conf to /etc - I certainly don't have write access to  
these at uni, so would it be worth mentioning alternatives?

As it was I ended up compiling with -c and adding a manual link step into  
my Makefile.

btw: D was a complete success for my practical - implemented Linear  
Feedback Shift Register class much faster than those struggling with  
C++ and with less code

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Feb 23 2005
next sibling parent reply =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb algonet.se> writes:
Alex Stevenson wrote:


 Ah... So that's how you do it... Used dmd for a crypto practical at uni  
 today but couldn't get dmd to pass phobos location to the linker... 
 Never  would have guessed -L-L~/dmd/lib
 
 btw - the linux installation page  
 (http://www.digitalmars.com/d/dcompiler.html) tells me to copy 
 libphobos.a  to /usr/lib and dmd.conf to /etc - I certainly don't have 
 write access to  these at uni, so would it be worth mentioning 
 alternatives?


I wrote it up at:
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?D__Tutorial/InstallingDCompiler

--anders
Feb 23 2005
parent reply "Alex Stevenson" <ans104 cs.york.ac.uk> writes:
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:07:19 +0100, Anders F Björklund <afb algonet.se>  
wrote:

Ah, cheers. Maybe one day I'll learn to check the 'usual' sources of  
information before doing a random hack of my own...
Feb 23 2005
parent =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb algonet.se> writes:
Alex Stevenson wrote:


 Ah, cheers. Maybe one day I'll learn to check the 'usual' sources of  
 information before doing a random hack of my own...


I just wrote it the other day... Maybe one day it'll find its way
onto the offical webpages as well as the user-contributed Wiki4D ?

--anders
Feb 23 2005
prev sibling parent Nick <Nick_member pathlink.com> writes:
In article <opsmnwezzb08qma6 mjolnir.spamnet.local>, Alex Stevenson says...


Ah... So that's how you do it... Used dmd for a crypto practical at uni  
today but couldn't get dmd to pass phobos location to the linker... Never  
would have guessed -L-L~/dmd/lib


Just as a suggestion of how to set it up: I made a shell script called 'dmd' in
my own bin/ directory, which basically contains


[set environment variables here]
$DMD_PATH/bin/dmd -I$DMD_PATH/src/phobos -I$MYINC_PATH -L-L$LIB_PATH $*

and this works great for me.

Oh and I prefer to make a symlink to libphobos.a, so I don't have to remember to
copy it every time I update dmd.

Nick
Feb 23 2005