Talking to non-D libraries

[Chris]

I'm trying to use the SDL lib from your site but I get: Not a valid
library file.


Anders F Björklund wrote:
> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> 
>>> It's normally not needed, you can link with the dynamic lib directly.
>>
>> Really!  That's news to me :) 
> 
> A common approach is that you have one "versioned" shared library:
> 
> libfoo.so.1.2.3
> libfoo.1.2.3.dylib
> 
> And then you have one "developer" library, which is just a symlink:
> 
> libfoo.so -> libfoo.so.1.2.3
> libfoo.dylib -> libfoo.1.2.3.dylib
> 
> Then you can use "-lfoo" flag to link, it'll pick the current version.
> Your binary will end up requiring the correct 1.2.3 version at runtime.
> 
> --anders
> 
> 
> PS. ".so" are being used in e.g. Linux, and ".dylib" in Darwin/Mac.