Simple I know, but could use some help compiling with make

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:30:54 -0400, Roderick Gibson <kniteli at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On 9/29/2011 1:02 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:28:56 -0400, Roderick Gibson <kniteli at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 9/29/2011 11:52 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>>>> On 9/29/11, Steven Schveighoffer<schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:32:28 -0400, Andrej Mitrovic
>>>>> <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> No it's not the same for Windows. On Windows you have to use -L+,
>>>>>> e.g.:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> dmd myfile.d -L+path/to/libs mylib.lib
>>>>>
>>>>> That's because +path/to/libs is the search-path parameter for
>>>>> OPTLINK. -L
>>>>> goes before all linker parameters. The same is for Linux.
>>>>>
>>>>> See here: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/dmd-windows.html
>>>>>
>>>>> -Steve
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Right, I misinterpreted the "same for Windows" part, you were
>>>> referring to -L and you're right.
>>>>
>>>> DMD could do some magic and replace -L-L with -L+ on Windows to
>>>> simplify cross-platform development. I know it sends everything after
>>>> -L to the linker, but it could make one special case for this.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks so much guys, it worked, although it looks like a mutated
>>> wildebeest. For the interested:
>>>
>>> IMPORT = -IC:\Dlang\dmd2\src\ext\Derelict2\import
>>> LIB_PATHS = -L+C:\Dlang\dmd2\src\ext\Derelict2\lib\\
>>>
>>> LIB_INCLUDES = DerelictSDL.lib DerelictGL.lib DerelictUtil.lib
>>> DerelictGLU.lib
>>>
>>> all:
>>> dmd src/main.d src/display.d src/renderdata.d src/vector2d.d $(IMPORT)
>>> $(LIB_PATHS) $(LIB_INCLUDES)
>>>
>>> Yes, that is TWO backslashes and the empty line between paths and
>>> includes is required. Could probably fix it but couldn't figure out
>>> how to escape the backslash (to prevent it from escaping the newline).
>>
>> Can you just leave off the last backslash? Again, not too familiar with
>> OPTLINK, so not sure.
>>
>> -Steve
>
> Nope, because then the first backslash would be escaping the newline and  
> the linker looks for Derelict2\lib.lib instead of Derelict2\lib\.

I mean, leave off the, um... first last backslash too :)

LIB_PATHS = -L+C:\Dlang\dmd2\src\ext\Derelict2\lib

-Steve