Linking in advapi32.lib and netlib32.lib

[Don Clugston]

John C wrote:
> 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 :(

Come on, give us a bit of time... that project only started less than 
three weeks ago! :-). The lmXXX stuff will come before too long.

>>
>> 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?"
>>