I notice my libraries are called
libphobos.a
libtango-base-dmd.a
libtangobos.a
etc

So when I compile a program with dmd the command put out is so
dmd MyStuff/main.d
gcc main.o -o main -m32 -Xlinker -L/usr/bin/../lib -ltango-user-dmd -ltango-base-dmd -lpthread -lm


so with the "-l" switch above  , does that get converted internally  to the prefix "lib"  ?

"Ty Tower" <tytower@hotmail.com.au> wrote in message news:fp7l1j$1j19$1@digitalmars.com...
>I notice my libraries are called
> libphobos.a
> libtango-base-dmd.a
> libtangobos.a
> etc
>
> So when I compile a program with dmd the command put out is so
> dmd MyStuff/main.d
> gcc main.o -o
> main -m32 -Xlinker -L/usr/bin/../lib -ltango-user-dmd -ltango-base-dmd -lpthread
>  -lm
>
>
> so with the "-l" switch above  , does that get converted internally  to the prefix "lib"  ?

Yes this is exactly what happens.

Under linux (and possibly others) libxxx.a is the standard naming convention for the file containing a static library named xxx. As such, only the 'name' of the library is required by GCC and it is expanded to the filename internally as you say.