E.g. the WindowsAPI bindings have the wingdi.d file, which has this call at the very top of the module:

pragma(lib, "gdi32.lib");

This doesn't seem to put any gdi32.lib symbol references to the final winapi library file, and if I try to use a function from wingdi.d from a main file, I still have to manually link to the gdi32.lib file (or use a pragma), otherwise I get undefined symbol errors.

So what are those pragmas for?

Ok so if I compile the Winapi .d modules with my main file, the pragma statement is taken into account and I don't have to manually add the pragma again.

But If I use an import switch (dmd -Iwin32\) and a precompiled library, then the pragma statement is skipped. Could this be considered a bug?

On 2011-04-08 21:18, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> Ok so if I compile the Winapi .d modules with my main file, the pragma
> statement is taken into account and I don't have to manually add the
> pragma again.
>
> But If I use an import switch (dmd -Iwin32\) and a precompiled
> library, then the pragma statement is skipped. Could this be
> considered a bug?

http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2776

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

Damn, a two year old patch. Why wasn't this included already?

Thanks for letting me know.

On 2011-04-10 20:24, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> Damn, a two year old patch. Why wasn't this included already?
>
> Thanks for letting me know.

There are a lot of those in bugzilla.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg