Using the Windows' compiler/linker how to specify a library to link?

[Gary Willoughby]

On Saturday, 11 January 2014 at 12:57:38 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On 1/11/2014 9:01 PM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
>> I'm currently using the 32bit compiler on Windows which uses 
>> optlink for
>> linking. I know the compiler command line accepts the -L 
>> option to pass
>> arguments to the linker. So what i'm after is the correct way 
>> to pass an
>> option to optlink to link a defined library.
>>
>> On Linux i would use: dmd -L-Llocation -L-lmylib source.d
>>
>> but on Windows?
>
> dmd -L+location mylib.lib source.d

Thanks. So simple but hard to find any docs.