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?

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

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Dmitry Olshansky