Linking in advapi32.lib and netlib32.lib

[John C]

Daniel Keep wrote:
> Hi, me again.
> 
> I was having a poke around phobos to see if there was anything that
> needed filling out, and found that expandTilde was missing a Windows
> implementation.
> 
> After a little trawling through MSDN, I've worked out what to do, but I
> can't for the life of me get the damn code to link.
> 
> I know I need to link to advapi32.lib and netlib32.lib.  If I link to
> advapi32.lib, I then get "Error: A dynamic link library (DLL)
> initialization routine failed.".  Oddly enough, it compiled without
> specifying netlib32.lib; when I do specify it, it can't find it.
> 
> Now, I'm assuming that the problem with advapi32.lib is that it's on
> COFF and not OMF (I can't actually remember where that copy of
> advapi32.lib came from >_<).  I've seen lots of references to
> coff2omf.exe, but the only one I can find costs $15 from DM.
> 
> So:
> 
> 1.  Is there a free tool to get dmd-compatible versions of advapi32.lib,
> netlib32.lib, (insert other win32 system libraries), or am I going to
> have to use std.loader?

coffimplib will convert Microsoft COFF libraries to OMF format.
http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/coffimplib.html
ftp://ftp.digitalmars.com/coffimplib.zip

> 
> 2.  Is there anywhere I can download OMF versions of those libraries?
> 
> P.S.  I just checked the Win32 api project, and they don't have lm.h
> converted (for stuff in netlib32), and no .lib files :(
> 
> If I can get this working, I'll donate the windows implementation of
> expandTilde (if Walter wants it, of course :).
> 
> 	-- Daniel "why you no linky, damnit?"
>