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reply "Jeremy DeHaan" <dehaan.jeremiah gmail.com> writes:
Like I said in the title, this is related to Windows. Basically, 
I'm looking to put a command line together to keep things 
consistent between Windows, OSX and Linux.

On OSX and Linux I would do -L-lLibraryName, but is there 
something similar that one can do on Windows? Or do I have to add 
LibraryName.lib to the file list? Just wondering!
Nov 19 2013
parent reply =?UTF-8?B?QWxpIMOHZWhyZWxp?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:
On 11/19/2013 11:18 PM, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:

 Like I said in the title, this is related to Windows. Basically, I'm
 looking to put a command line together to keep things consistent between
 Windows, OSX and Linux.

 On OSX and Linux I would do -L-lLibraryName, but is there something
 similar that one can do on Windows? Or do I have to add LibraryName.lib
 to the file list? Just wondering!


It looks like it is -L on Windows as well:

   http://dlang.org/dmd-windows.html

Ali
Nov 19 2013
parent reply "Jeremy DeHaan" <dehaan.jeremiah gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 20 November 2013 at 07:47:39 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:

 On 11/19/2013 11:18 PM, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:

 Like I said in the title, this is related to Windows. 
 Basically, I'm
 looking to put a command line together to keep things 
 consistent between
 Windows, OSX and Linux.

 On OSX and Linux I would do -L-lLibraryName, but is there 
 something
 similar that one can do on Windows? Or do I have to add 
 LibraryName.lib
 to the file list? Just wondering!


 It looks like it is -L on Windows as well:

   http://dlang.org/dmd-windows.html

 Ali


The -L switch is just for sending switches to the linker. On OSX 
and Linux, it is -L-lLibraryName, like I mention before, where 
-lLibraryName is what actually gets passed to the linker. 
Basically I'm wondering of Optlink has a switch that does the 
same thing as the -l switch for linking to a library.
Nov 20 2013
parent reply Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
On 11/20/2013 5:01 PM, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:

 The -L switch is just for sending switches to the linker. On OSX and
 Linux, it is -L-lLibraryName, like I mention before, where -lLibraryName
 is what actually gets passed to the linker. Basically I'm wondering of
 Optlink has a switch that does the same thing as the -l switch for
 linking to a library.


I don't believe there is anything like that. You just pass the lib name.

dmd foo.d bar.lib

You also pass a library path like so:

dmd foo.d bar.lib -L+../path/to/libs

This difference between Windows and other platforms creates a minor 
annoyance when making cross-platform build scripts for D (which, since 
dub came along, I don't worry about anymore). I vaguely recall a 
discussion around here somewhere about having DMD hide all of that 
behind a uniform syntax on the command line, for the library stuff at 
least. But it obviously didn't go anywhere.
Nov 20 2013
parent "Jeremy DeHaan" <dehaan.jeremiah gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 20 November 2013 at 12:02:36 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 On 11/20/2013 5:01 PM, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:

 The -L switch is just for sending switches to the linker. On 
 OSX and
 Linux, it is -L-lLibraryName, like I mention before, where 
 -lLibraryName
 is what actually gets passed to the linker. Basically I'm 
 wondering of
 Optlink has a switch that does the same thing as the -l switch 
 for
 linking to a library.


 I don't believe there is anything like that. You just pass the 
 lib name.

 dmd foo.d bar.lib

 You also pass a library path like so:

 dmd foo.d bar.lib -L+../path/to/libs

 This difference between Windows and other platforms creates a 
 minor annoyance when making cross-platform build scripts for D 
 (which, since dub came along, I don't worry about anymore). I 
 vaguely recall a discussion around here somewhere about having 
 DMD hide all of that behind a uniform syntax on the command 
 line, for the library stuff at least. But it obviously didn't 
 go anywhere.


Ok, thanks. I kind of figured that was the case, but I posted in 
in hopes that there was something that I had missed.
Nov 20 2013