I have a project which is a mixture of D, C++ and C. I have used Make for build automation so far but would like to migrate to DUB.

I have hard time figuring out what to do with C / C++ sections of the program. DUB seems to ignore (probably sensibly) everything but D source files. I compiled a static library of the non-D sections of my program, and now I'd need to tell DUB to include the library in the linking stage.

I tried to use "linkerFiles" argument in dub.json but that doesn't seem to do anything.

Here's the full dub.json:



{
    "name": "audio_test",
    "description": "audio test.",
    "copyright": "",
    "authors": [""],
    "dependencies": {
	"derelict-imgui": {"version":"~master", "path": "./DerelictImgui/"},
	"derelict-glfw3": "~>1.1.0",
	"derelict-gl3": "~>1.0.12",
	"derelict-sdl2": "~>1.9.7",
    },

    "libs": [ "stdc++" ],

    "stringImportPaths": [
        "res"
    ],

    "linkerFiles": [
        "sid.a"
    ]

}

sid.a is the library in question.

Any ideas?

On Wednesday, 20 April 2016 at 10:19:10 UTC, abad wrote:
> I have a project which is a mixture of D, C++ and C. I have used Make for build automation so far but would like to migrate to DUB.
>
> I have hard time figuring out what to do with C / C++ sections of the program. DUB seems to ignore (probably sensibly) everything but D source files. I compiled a static library of the non-D sections of my program, and now I'd need to tell DUB to include the library in the linking stage.
>
> I tried to use "linkerFiles" argument in dub.json but that doesn't seem to do anything.
>
> Here's the full dub.json:
>
>
>
> {
>     "name": "audio_test",
>     "description": "audio test.",
>     "copyright": "",
>     "authors": [""],
>     "dependencies": {
> 	"derelict-imgui": {"version":"~master", "path": "./DerelictImgui/"},
> 	"derelict-glfw3": "~>1.1.0",
> 	"derelict-gl3": "~>1.0.12",
> 	"derelict-sdl2": "~>1.9.7",
>     },
>
>     "libs": [ "stdc++" ],
>
>     "stringImportPaths": [
>         "res"
>     ],
>
>     "linkerFiles": [
>         "sid.a"
>     ]
>
> }
>
> sid.a is the library in question.
>
> Any ideas?

"libs": [ "stdc++", "sid.a" ],

You'll also need to pass the appropriate linker-specific flag to set the library path in lflags if sid.a isn't already on the path. (dub already supports an importPaths field, but needs a libraryFlags field too given there are at least three different linkers to content with).

On Wednesday, 20 April 2016 at 13:12:54 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

>
> "libs": [ "stdc++", "sid.a" ],
>
Oh, if you're using DMD only you can also pass configure it using sourceFiles:

"sourceFile": ["/path/to/libsid.a"]

The first is the equivalant of:

dmd -L-lsid main.d ...

And the second:

dmd main.d /path/to/libsid.a ...