Can someone explain how glfw3.dll gets created?

[John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 13 October 2014 at 20:21:56 UTC, WhatMeWorry wrote:
> I have a simple GLFW3 program running in Visual D integrated 
> shell, that kept aborting at DerelictFLFW3.load() with a 
> "failed to load the shared libraries: glfw3.dll.'
>
> So I found a glfw3.dll somewhere and moved it into the project 
> folder (I know this is bad technique) and that fixed the 
> problem.
>
> But now I'm wondering were this glfw3.dll came from.
>
> I rebuildt the DerelictGLFW3 with dub as per the instructions.
>
> E:\DerelictGLFW3-master>dub build
> Building derelict-glfw3 ~master configuration "library", build 
> type debug.
> Running dmd...
>
> And I see
> E:\DerelictGLFW3-master\source\derelict\glfw3\glfw3.d  which is 
> used for compile time.
>
> And the
> E:\DerelictGLFW3-master\lib\DerelictGLFW3.lib which is the 
> static library required at link time.
>
> But I couldn't find any glfw3.dll under the 
> E:\DerelictGLFW3-master path.
>
>
> I did however, find these lines in the DerelictGLFW3/glfw3.d 
> code:
> ...
> static if( Derelict_OS_Windows )
>    enum libNames = "glfw3.dll";
> . . .
> class DerelictGLFW3Loader : SharedLibLoader {
>     public this() {
>         super( libNames );
>     }
>
>     protected override void loadSymbols() {
>         bindFunc( cast( void** )&glfwInit, "glfwInit" );
>         bindFunc( cast( void** )&glfwTerminate, "glfwTerminate" 
> );
>         bindFunc( cast( void** )&glfwGetVersion, 
> "glfwGetVersion" );
>         bindFunc( cast( void** )&glfwGetVersionString, 
> "glfwGetVersionString" );
>         bindFunc( cast( void** )&glfwSetErrorCallback, 
> "glfwSetErrorCallback" );
>  ...
>
> But I don't believe this will create the glfw3.dll file?  If 
> I'm correct, how, when and where is glfw3.dll created.
>
> thanks as always.

Derelict-glfw3 is just d bindings and a loader for the glfw3 
library. The actual implementation of glfw (i.e. what you would 
find in glfw3.dll) is a separate project, which you can find the 
source for here http://www.glfw.org