-L-ldl needed on Linux

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Mike Parker wrote:

> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> Mike Parker wrote:
>>> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>>> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> It may be that it is derelict's fault for not working with the
>>>>> tools, but
>>>>> there is also the relevant bugzilla entries
>>>>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1663
>>>>>
>>>>> and
>>>>>
>>>>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1690
>>>>>
>>>>> pragma(lib) should be implemented on all platforms, or removed from
>>>>> the spec
>>>>> entirely.
>>>>
>>>> That's certainly a problem.
>>>>
>>>> However, Derelict supports DSSS, so that's not really an excuse for
>>>> Derelict.  It could use DSSS's pragma(link).
>>>>
>>>> --bb
>>>
>>> How is that going to help with the final executable? No linking is
>>> done during the compilation of static libraries, so even if I did add
>>> that to Derelict's dsss.conf files, the user would still have to link
>>> to libdl when compiling the executable.
>> 
>> You wouldn't put it in Derelict's dsss.conf, you'd put it in
>> derelict/util/loader.d.  And it would end up in the .di file, where it
>> would be found by dsss later when users are trying to compile something
>> that uses loader.
>> 
> 
> I see now. I've updated the Derelict trunk with the pragma link.

For reference, this is where I think that pragma lib should be available
from the compiler instead, such that the correct lib will be linked even
with a different build tool.

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