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reply "Ellery Newcomer" <ellery-newcomer utulsa.edu> writes:
Hey,

a while back I was messing around with some winapi calls in D, 
and I had occasion to want to link to crypt32.dll, but dmd 
doesn't seem to ship with a crypt32.lib.

I tried downloading the platform sdk or whatever the thing is 
called, but, um...

dmd ssl_client.d "C:\Program Files\Microsoft 
SDKs\Windows\v7.0\Lib\Crypt32.Lib"
OPTLINK (R) for Win32  Release 8.00.12
Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989-2010  All rights reserved.
http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/optlink.html
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0\Lib\Crypt32.Lib
  Error 43: Not a Valid Library File


Actually, looking at those lib files a little closer, they appear 
to be mildly messed up ar archives.

Any ideas on what I should do here?
May 13 2012
parent Dmitry Olshansky <dmitry.olsh gmail.com> writes:
On 13.05.2012 18:41, Ellery Newcomer wrote:

 Hey,

 a while back I was messing around with some winapi calls in D, and I had
 occasion to want to link to crypt32.dll, but dmd doesn't seem to ship
 with a crypt32.lib.

 I tried downloading the platform sdk or whatever the thing is called,
 but, um...

 dmd ssl_client.d "C:\Program Files\Microsoft
 SDKs\Windows\v7.0\Lib\Crypt32.Lib"
 OPTLINK (R) for Win32 Release 8.00.12
 Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989-2010 All rights reserved.
 http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/optlink.html
 C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0\Lib\Crypt32.Lib
 Error 43: Not a Valid Library File


 Actually, looking at those lib files a little closer, they appear to be
 mildly messed up ar archives.

 Any ideas on what I should do here?


They are COFF import libs.
Use Unilink or convert libs to omf format. Another option is implib.
http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/implib.html

-- 
Dmitry Olshansky
May 13 2012