xfbuild, optlink and pragma(lib)

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On 01/08/2010 16:22, Mafi wrote:
>> libSDL.dll.a is a MingW- or Cygwin-compiled link library. That's not
>> going to work on Windows with DMD and may very likely be the source of
>> your problem. If you want to link with a DLL link lib, then you need to
>> get the tool coff2omf[1] (part of the Extended Utilities Package[2]) run
>> it on SDL.lib (I suppose it might work on SDL.dll.a), and link with the
>> resulting converted file. Either that or compile SDL with DMC.
>>
>> Alternatively, you could modify your binding to load SDL dynamically
>> like Derelict does. Then you don't need to fool around with any link
>> libs. But, you do need a fair amount of implementation code to load the
>> function symbols from the DLL.
>>
>> [1] http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/coff2omf.html
>> [2] http://www.digitalmars.com/download/freecompiler.html
>
> The tool sounds cool but it seems that I have to buy it, so that's no
> option for me. So I tried to compile SDL myself. I have to say I'm to
> stupid for it. I tried to do the same thing as the makefile in
> powershell. After I hacked together some solution that worked dmc
> complained about missing Gl.h. It isn't there. So I added some MinGW to
> the include-path and then I get a bunch of errors in SDL without
> linenumbers. And anyways I am trying to compile it without MinGW, aren't
> I. Please, help me!

Just use Derelict and save yourself a world of grief.

http://dsource.org/projects/derelict

Compiling C libs with dmc is easy if you are an experenced C developer,
but it's a nightmare if you aren't.