Link errors when compiling shared lib on windows

[Jerry]

On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 16:02:37 UTC, Daniel Fitzpatrick 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 15:52:17 UTC, kinke wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 15:15:27 UTC, Daniel 
>> Fitzpatrick wrote:
>>> I am following this short tutorial on compiling a shared lib:
>>>
>>> https://wiki.dlang.org/Call_D_from_Ruby_using_FFI
>>>
>>> Because it's on Windows I am using these compiler options:
>>>
>>> -shared -m64 -defaultlib=libphobos2.so i.d
>>>
>>>
>>> However, I am receiving rather a lot of linker errors.  Not 
>>> sure what else to provide the compiler.
>>
>> Try less, especially no `-defaultlib` overridden with a Linux 
>> shared-object. You'll have to edit the hardcoded `./i.so` in 
>> the example as well obviously.
>
> Oops, missed that!  What i've tried is
>
> -shared -m64 i.d
> -shared -m64 -defaultlib=libphobos2.dll i.d
>
> Still seeing a lot of linker errors.  Errors for the former:

There's no shared library of Phobos for Windows with either DMD 
or LDC. You have to statically link to it.