Link against MinGW libraries

[Maxim Fomin]

On Wednesday, 22 August 2012 at 14:56:40 UTC, Kai Meyer wrote:
> There's got to be a way to link against libraries generated by 
> MinGW, right? I'm using CMake to create a very simple 1 method 
> library. If I tell D to link against the .lib (simple ar 
> archive), it complains that it's an invalid library. If I tell 
> D to link against the .dll, it complains that there is no .lib.
>
> I seem to remember thinking that Microsoft tools create a .dll 
> and a .lib for development libraries, and you link against the 
> .lib but run against the .dll. I don't know how to make MinGW 
> (or cmake for that matter) generate both the .dll and .lib. I 
> seem to remember that other projects I've built with the Visual 
> Studio compiler, I get .lib and .dll files for my shared 
> libraries, and those seem to work.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

Which D compiler are you using?