Hi Everyone,

Preamble: We're a Win7+VisualStudio development environment. This question involves integrating the GitHub-based 'D-Programming-Deimos/ZeroMQ' package in a 'D' solution.

Short form of issue: If anyone has compiled a D program using (say) zmq_ctx_new(), then I'd appreciate knowing how the library-paths and such were configured. I've tried all kinds of options (and yes I've read the read the documentatio), but still have 'Error 42: Symbol undefined _zmq_socket' errors.

Explanation and long form of question:
1) The GitHub package is at 'C:\D\zeromq-master'.
2) The file 'zeromq.lib' was installed as expected within the 'C:\D\zeromq-master' directory.
3) The LIB variable has 'C:\D\zeromq-master' within it.
4) Within VisualStudio, the VisualD DMD directories' library paths has 'C:\D\zeromq-master' as its setting.
5) The command generated by VisualD, as shown on the solution's Properties' Configuration Properties' Command Line is :
"$(VisualDInstallDir)pipedmd.exe" dmd -debug -IC:\D\zmq-d-0.3.0\source -IC:\D\zeromq-master -deps="$(OutDir)\$(ProjectName).dep" -of"$(OutDir)\$(ProjectName).exe" -map "$(INTDIR)\$(SAFEPROJECTNAME).map" -L/NOMAP zeromq.lib
6) I can create an OBJ file without any errors/issues, but the linking part ain't happening.

I'd appreciate any suggestions or thoughts.

Chuck

On Thursday, 21 April 2016 at 00:15:03 UTC, Chuck Moore wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Preamble: We're a Win7+VisualStudio development environment. This question involves integrating the GitHub-based
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>
> Chuck

Hi Everyone,

I finally got my compilation+linking to work using VisualD. In the event others might find my results useful, here are my notes:

1) It turns out that when using VisualD, the safest/guaranteed-way-to-make-things-visible-to-DMD is to load everything (as in anything one imports-from, or references with the linker) into the 'solution' using the Add > Existing Items option found by right-clicking the solution's name in  'Solution Explorer'.
2) So what I ended up having as additional items alongside 'main.d' : libsodium.lib, libzmq-v110_xp_mt-4_0_4.lib, zeromq.lib, zmqd.d, and zmqd.lib. There is certainly some duplication of functions in this list, but VisualD wasn't happy until I had all of these items added.
3) Finally, prior to adding the 'lib' files, I also had to (download and) use the 'coffimpllib' utility on ALL the lib files.

My thanks to the author of zmqd for his quick response and encouragement.
Chuck