Problem this names of shared libraries

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-06-26 10:45, mezozoysky wrote:
> Hello!
> I'm not sure if this is the right thread for this question. If you know
> in which thread this question should be, please point me to it.
>
> I've see a strange things using dmd 2.059 with my debian/testing os.
> Linker returns an error, when I link external shared libraries to my code.
>
> I ran the following:
>
> $ dmd -ofbin/example ./src/example/main.o -L-lGL -L-lGLU -L-ldl
>
> & I've got:
>
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGL
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGLU
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> --- errorlevel 1
>
> this occurs until I have libGL.so.1 & libGLU.so.1 in /usr/lib, but since
> I've created symlinks libGL.so & libGLU.so in the same directory, it
> links ok.
>
> What is this: dmd bug? OS or ld misconfiguration? something else?
>
> Please tell me if I'm doing something wrong.

As far as I know -L is just piped through to the linker.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg