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Raylib linking error
Jul 29, 2021
Ki
Jul 29, 2021
Ki
Jul 29, 2021
Mike Parker
July 29, 2021

I tried to compile a new project with Raylib yesterday:
dub init => ... => dub add raylib-d.

My dub.json file does contain the "libs": ["raylib"] section, so the compiler links against raylib library. Then I built the project and got a linker error referencing a whole bunch of opengl, glfw functions.

Does anyone know what is the problem here?

I am a little puzzled on what to try next, but to build raylib myself from source (I use brew to manage packages).

July 29, 2021

On Thursday, 29 July 2021 at 07:59:38 UTC, Ki wrote:

>

I tried to compile a new project with Raylib yesterday:
dub init => ... => dub add raylib-d.

My dub.json file does contain the "libs": ["raylib"] section, so the compiler links against raylib library. Then I built the project and got a linker error referencing a whole bunch of opengl, glfw functions.

Does anyone know what is the problem here?

I am a little puzzled on what to try next, but to build raylib myself from source (I use brew to manage packages).

It seems I need to link Cocoa and IOKit frameworks, but how do I tell this to DUB? I'm browsing the dub documentation and cannot find anything framework-related.

July 29, 2021

On Thursday, 29 July 2021 at 10:07:15 UTC, Ki wrote:

>

On Thursday, 29 July 2021 at 07:59:38 UTC, Ki wrote:

>

I tried to compile a new project with Raylib yesterday:
dub init => ... => dub add raylib-d.

My dub.json file does contain the "libs": ["raylib"] section, so the compiler links against raylib library. Then I built the project and got a linker error referencing a whole bunch of opengl, glfw functions.

Does anyone know what is the problem here?

I am a little puzzled on what to try next, but to build raylib myself from source (I use brew to manage packages).

It seems I need to link Cocoa and IOKit frameworks, but how do I tell this to DUB? I'm browsing the dub documentation and cannot find anything framework-related.

My answer on reddit:

The -framework flag on Mac is a linker flag. Linker flags are handled in DUB via the lflags entry. Assuming XLinker is being used, it should probably look something like this:

"flags": ["-framework", "CoreVideo", "-framework", "IOKit"]

In other words, a string for the -framework flag and the framework name for each of the frameworks you need. Because according to the forum thread below, passing them to DMD directly requires the -L switch (meaning, the library flag switch) for both -framework and the name.

(Ignore the bit about the link pragma in that thread... that's specific to an old build tool that's no longer around).

https://forum.dlang.org/post/gp3uk2$gnd$1@digitalmars.com