Like I said in the title, this is related to Windows. Basically, I'm looking to put a command line together to keep things consistent between Windows, OSX and Linux.

On OSX and Linux I would do -L-lLibraryName, but is there something similar that one can do on Windows? Or do I have to add LibraryName.lib to the file list? Just wondering!

On 11/19/2013 11:18 PM, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
> Like I said in the title, this is related to Windows. Basically, I'm
> looking to put a command line together to keep things consistent between
> Windows, OSX and Linux.
>
> On OSX and Linux I would do -L-lLibraryName, but is there something
> similar that one can do on Windows? Or do I have to add LibraryName.lib
> to the file list? Just wondering!

It looks like it is -L on Windows as well:

  http://dlang.org/dmd-windows.html

Ali

On Wednesday, 20 November 2013 at 07:47:39 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> On 11/19/2013 11:18 PM, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
>> Like I said in the title, this is related to Windows. Basically, I'm
>> looking to put a command line together to keep things consistent between
>> Windows, OSX and Linux.
>>
>> On OSX and Linux I would do -L-lLibraryName, but is there something
>> similar that one can do on Windows? Or do I have to add LibraryName.lib
>> to the file list? Just wondering!
>
> It looks like it is -L on Windows as well:
>
>   http://dlang.org/dmd-windows.html
>
> Ali

The -L switch is just for sending switches to the linker. On OSX and Linux, it is -L-lLibraryName, like I mention before, where -lLibraryName is what actually gets passed to the linker. Basically I'm wondering of Optlink has a switch that does the same thing as the -l switch for linking to a library.

On 11/20/2013 5:01 PM, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
>
> The -L switch is just for sending switches to the linker. On OSX and
> Linux, it is -L-lLibraryName, like I mention before, where -lLibraryName
> is what actually gets passed to the linker. Basically I'm wondering of
> Optlink has a switch that does the same thing as the -l switch for
> linking to a library.

I don't believe there is anything like that. You just pass the lib name.

dmd foo.d bar.lib

You also pass a library path like so:

dmd foo.d bar.lib -L+../path/to/libs

This difference between Windows and other platforms creates a minor annoyance when making cross-platform build scripts for D (which, since dub came along, I don't worry about anymore). I vaguely recall a discussion around here somewhere about having DMD hide all of that behind a uniform syntax on the command line, for the library stuff at least. But it obviously didn't go anywhere.

On Wednesday, 20 November 2013 at 12:02:36 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On 11/20/2013 5:01 PM, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
>>
>> The -L switch is just for sending switches to the linker. On OSX and
>> Linux, it is -L-lLibraryName, like I mention before, where -lLibraryName
>> is what actually gets passed to the linker. Basically I'm wondering of
>> Optlink has a switch that does the same thing as the -l switch for
>> linking to a library.
>
> I don't believe there is anything like that. You just pass the lib name.
>
> dmd foo.d bar.lib
>
> You also pass a library path like so:
>
> dmd foo.d bar.lib -L+../path/to/libs
>
> This difference between Windows and other platforms creates a minor annoyance when making cross-platform build scripts for D (which, since dub came along, I don't worry about anymore). I vaguely recall a discussion around here somewhere about having DMD hide all of that behind a uniform syntax on the command line, for the library stuff at least. But it obviously didn't go anywhere.

Ok, thanks. I kind of figured that was the case, but I posted in in hopes that there was something that I had missed.