Is it possible to set relative -L paths on dub for Windows? Absolute paths work fine, just can't get relative paths working.

I was looking at the thread here
https://forum.dlang.org/post/dkwqrwzwqbrnaamlvtld@forum.dlang.org
and came up with something like
{
    ...
    "lflags": ["-L-L..\\libs\\"],
}

where the file structure contains folders dubproject\libs and dubproject\source.

It didn't work though.

On Tuesday, 27 June 2017 at 19:07:49 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> Is it possible to set relative -L paths on dub for Windows? Absolute paths work fine, just can't get relative paths working.
>
> I was looking at the thread here
> https://forum.dlang.org/post/dkwqrwzwqbrnaamlvtld@forum.dlang.org
> and came up with something like
> {
>     ...
>     "lflags": ["-L-L..\\libs\\"],
> }
>
> where the file structure contains folders dubproject\libs and dubproject\source.
>
> It didn't work though.

You have to specify the appropriate linker option, e.g. -L-option. For gcc, that happens to -L, so you get -L-L. For optlink it's +something and for the MS linker it's /something. I'm on my phone else I'd look it up.

On Wednesday, 28 June 2017 at 00:16:23 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 June 2017 at 19:07:49 UTC,
>
> You have to specify the appropriate linker option, e.g. -L-option. For gcc, that happens to -L, so you get -L-L. For optlink it's +something and for the MS linker it's /something. I'm on my phone else I'd look it up.

Optlink instructions at [1]: -L+path\
MS linker [2]: -L/LIBPATH:path

[1] https://wiki.dlang.org/Compiling_and_linking_with_DMD_on_Windows

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/libpath-additional-libpath

On Wednesday, 28 June 2017 at 00:22:56 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Wednesday, 28 June 2017 at 00:16:23 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 27 June 2017 at 19:07:49 UTC,
>>
>> You have to specify the appropriate linker option, e.g. -L-option. For gcc, that happens to -L, so you get -L-L. For optlink it's +something and for the MS linker it's /something. I'm on my phone else I'd look it up.
>
> Optlink instructions at [1]: -L+path\
> MS linker [2]: -L/LIBPATH:path
>
> [1] https://wiki.dlang.org/Compiling_and_linking_with_DMD_on_Windows
>
> [2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/libpath-additional-libpath

I appreciate you posting this. I had found the /LIBPATH, but dub randomly crapped out on me before I was about to test it, so I'm going to start another thread just on that...