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Using the Windows' compiler/linker how to specify a library to link?
Jan 11, 2014
Gary Willoughby
Jan 11, 2014
Mike Parker
Jan 11, 2014
Gary Willoughby
Jan 11, 2014
Mike Parker
January 11, 2014
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I'm currently using the 32bit compiler on Windows which uses optlink for linking. I know the compiler command line accepts the -L option to pass arguments to the linker. So what i'm after is the correct way to pass an option to optlink to link a defined library.

On Linux i would use: dmd -L-Llocation -L-lmylib source.d

but on Windows?
January 11, 2014
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On 1/11/2014 9:01 PM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> I'm currently using the 32bit compiler on Windows which uses optlink for
> linking. I know the compiler command line accepts the -L option to pass
> arguments to the linker. So what i'm after is the correct way to pass an
> option to optlink to link a defined library.
>
> On Linux i would use: dmd -L-Llocation -L-lmylib source.d
>
> but on Windows?

dmd -L+location mylib.lib source.d
January 11, 2014
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On Saturday, 11 January 2014 at 12:57:38 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On 1/11/2014 9:01 PM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
>> I'm currently using the 32bit compiler on Windows which uses optlink for
>> linking. I know the compiler command line accepts the -L option to pass
>> arguments to the linker. So what i'm after is the correct way to pass an
>> option to optlink to link a defined library.
>>
>> On Linux i would use: dmd -L-Llocation -L-lmylib source.d
>>
>> but on Windows?
>
> dmd -L+location mylib.lib source.d

Thanks. So simple but hard to find any docs.
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On 1/11/2014 10:08 PM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> On Saturday, 11 January 2014 at 12:57:38 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> On 1/11/2014 9:01 PM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
>>> I'm currently using the 32bit compiler on Windows which uses optlink for
>>> linking. I know the compiler command line accepts the -L option to pass
>>> arguments to the linker. So what i'm after is the correct way to pass an
>>> option to optlink to link a defined library.
>>>
>>> On Linux i would use: dmd -L-Llocation -L-lmylib source.d
>>>
>>> but on Windows?
>>
>> dmd -L+location mylib.lib source.d
>
> Thanks. So simple but hard to find any docs.

True. I could never remember the -L+ bit. Google led me here a while back:

http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?D__Tutorial/CompilingLinkingD