How may I tell dub where to find a C library for linking?

[Mike Parker]

On Monday, 10 December 2018 at 15:38:24 UTC, Pab De Nápoli wrote:


> 1) Setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable with
>
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/llvm-6.0/lib/
>
> and using
>
>  "libs" : ["LLVM-6.0"]
>
> in dub.json. (this is somewhat nasty, it would be nice to keep 
> all the information together in dub.json)
>
> Moreover, the information about the path for linking with LLVM 
> can be obtained from the shell script llvconfig as
>
> $llvm-config-6.0 --libs --ldflags
> -L/usr/lib/llvm-6.0/lib
> -lLLVM-6.0
>

If you do want to put it in the dub config, the -L option, and 
any linker options, can go in the "lflags" directive. "libs" is 
for libraries only.

"lflags": ["-L/usr/lib/llvm-6.0/lib"],
"libs": ["LLVM-6.0"]