Linking with .dylibs on OSX?

[evilrat]

On Friday, 19 July 2013 at 22:30:42 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
> On Friday, 19 July 2013 at 19:52:49 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
>> On Friday, 19 July 2013 at 18:29:12 UTC, evilrat wrote:
>>> On Friday, 19 July 2013 at 18:19:20 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote:
>>>> I was just curious if DMD supported linking with .dylib 
>>>> files on OSX.
>>>>
>>>> Would one simply do something like this?
>>>>
>>>> "dmd main.d somelib.dylib"
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> i don't remember exactly, but if this not work for you try 
>>> something like this
>>> dmd main.d -L-L/path/to/lib.dylib
>>> i think there was a topic on this on wiki
>>
>> That worked! Just one too many -L's though. It ended up being
>>
>> dmd main.d -L/path/to/lib.dylib
>
> I have another question.
>
> Is there a way to specify a search directory and then link to 
> each dylib?
>
> I have someone that I'm trying to help by the way, and I don't 
> have a Mac :P
>
> I was pretty sure that -L-L/path/ seemed to be the way to add 
> the search directory, but if I have a dylib named 
> libsomelib.dylib, would I pass -Lsomelib, -Llibsomelib.dylib, 
> -Lsomelib.dylib, or something else?
>
> Thanks for you help.
>
> P.S.
> Only a guide for compiling and linking on Windows is in the 
> wiki. That should definitely be changed.

with libglfw.dylib it works for me

evilrat$ dmd test.d 
-L-L/Users/evilrat/Documents/prog/glfwbuild/osx/_install/lib 
-L-lglfw

note that first -L is dmd flag to pass linker options, but if you 
linking just single lib you can simply add it as source file like 
this "dmd test.d testlib.a"