How do I setup mono-D for creating shared libraries and including them into other projects? When I drag the .d files to create the library from, which is not my own, I get undefined references. I have the lib files, which are a bunch of separate libs, that I want to include into one big lib. Once that's done I want to include that lib into another project.

I'd rather not modify si.ini. Are there any tutorials for getting started with Mono-D? (setup, not coding)

On 23/09/15 8:20 AM, Jacob wrote:
> How do I setup mono-D for creating shared libraries and including them
> into other projects? When I drag the .d files to create the library
> from, which is not my own, I get undefined references. I have the lib
> files, which are a bunch of separate libs, that I want to include into
> one big lib. Once that's done I want to include that lib into another
> project.
>
> I'd rather not modify si.ini. Are there any tutorials for getting
> started with Mono-D? (setup, not coding)

Well you could go the route of dub, which configuration files can be loaded directly into it as a project.

On Wednesday, 23 September 2015 at 04:34:45 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> On 23/09/15 8:20 AM, Jacob wrote:
>> How do I setup mono-D for creating shared libraries and including them
>> into other projects? When I drag the .d files to create the library
>> from, which is not my own, I get undefined references. I have the lib
>> files, which are a bunch of separate libs, that I want to include into
>> one big lib. Once that's done I want to include that lib into another
>> project.
>>
>> I'd rather not modify si.ini. Are there any tutorials for getting
>> started with Mono-D? (setup, not coding)
>
> Well you could go the route of dub, which configuration files can be loaded directly into it as a project.

To create the library, what do I do?

'dub init myLib'

then delete app.d,

and then add all the library.d files?

Then what? Where do I tell it to find the .lib files without adding them to sc.ini?

Do I just mess with dub.json to and add all the proper build options to get both the lib and the dependent apps working or are there other steps I'm missing?

On 25/09/15 9:58 AM, Jacob wrote:
> On Wednesday, 23 September 2015 at 04:34:45 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>> On 23/09/15 8:20 AM, Jacob wrote:
>>> How do I setup mono-D for creating shared libraries and including them
>>> into other projects? When I drag the .d files to create the library
>>> from, which is not my own, I get undefined references. I have the lib
>>> files, which are a bunch of separate libs, that I want to include into
>>> one big lib. Once that's done I want to include that lib into another
>>> project.
>>>
>>> I'd rather not modify si.ini. Are there any tutorials for getting
>>> started with Mono-D? (setup, not coding)
>>
>> Well you could go the route of dub, which configuration files can be
>> loaded directly into it as a project.
>
> To create the library, what do I do?
>
> 'dub init myLib'
>
> then delete app.d,
>
> and then add all the library.d files?
>
> Then what? Where do I tell it to find the .lib files without adding them
> to sc.ini?
>
> Do I just mess with dub.json to and add all the proper build options to
> get both the lib and the dependent apps working or are there other steps
> I'm missing?

"targetType": "dynamicLibrary"
http://code.dlang.org/package-format?lang=json#target-types

I would also recommend looking at sub packages.
http://code.dlang.org/package-format?lang=json#sub-packages
That'll make things a lot easier. To have both an executable and a shared library built from the same project directory :)