Windows 64-bit import library

[Mike Parker]

On Friday, 20 July 2018 at 04:31:38 UTC, Jordan Wilson wrote:

> I don't have MSVC, so I built it using mingw, which generated a 
> .a lib.
> I shall google some more, as I understand it DMD -m64 uses 
> Mingw libs as a fall back when MSVC not found, I compiled Lua 
> using mingw, I can't be too much further away from being able 
> to link in a 64-bit lua import lib in a 64-bit DMD compiled 
> program...


In that case, you may be better off using the DerelictLua binding 
[1] so that you can avoid the link-time dependency and just load 
the Lua DLL manually at runtime via `DerelictLua.load` [2]. Then 
it doesn't matter which compiler the DLL was compiled with or 
which toolchain you use to compile your app. Version 2.0.0-beta.2 
(master and 2.0 branches) binds to Lua 5.3 (don't let the beta 
tag scare you -- it's stable). If you need Lua 5.2 instead, 
version 1.3.0 binds to it.

[1] https://code.dlang.org/packages/derelict-lua
[2] https://github.com/DerelictOrg/DerelictLua