Help plz: Using to libraries in D?

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 29 April 2014 at 20:55:01 UTC, K.K. wrote:
> Hi! I've kinda got a few noob questions...
>
> I've been trying to learn D for the last few months, and I've 
> got a pretty good grasp of the syntax, but I've been having 
> trouble figuring out how to use libraries(excluding the 
> standard lib).
>
> I've been trying to setup a game engine, so I've tried 
> libraries like Derelict, Allegro(the derelict version and the C 
> version), and GFM. Plus later on when I'm having less trouble I 
> was hoping to get PyD involved.
>
> I tried using the makefile that came with Derelict2 (win32.mak 
> through powershell with DMD), and everything worked fine but I 
> still didn't know what to do with the D interface files or the 
> object lib files. Do I only worry about them at compile time? 
> -but I still need to link to the libraries in the files that 
> need them right? ....and which one, there seems to be multiple 
> locations to go to.
>
> But then ofcouse GFM is based off of Derelict3, which doesn't 
> seem to have any makefiles, so.... idk.
>
> I feel like I'm on the right path here, and have all the pieces 
> but am totally lost on how to put it together. I feel like I've 
> gotta ask someone directly at this point because I've just been 
> reading manuals and books for this one step for like 2 weeks 
> now.
>
> So if someone could break it down for me, or atleast give me a 
> few links to some guides that'd be greatly appreciated; Thanks!
>
> (If you need me to elaborate some more on what I'm trying to 
> do, I'd be happy to oblige)

I would recommend using dub for managing dependencies and 
building libraries etc. http://code.dlang.org/about