D multimedia programming - a new website

Mike Parker aldacron71 at yahoo.com
Thu May 4 18:22:17 PDT 2006


Hasan Aljudy wrote:
>>
>> No. Derelict eliminates the need to link with import libraries. It 
>> loads the shared libraries manually via LoadLibrary on Windows and 
>> dlopen on Linux.
> 
> But you still need the dlls, if you want to use image and ttf and other 
> extensions.
> 
> SDL_image.dll
> SDL_ttf.dll
> 
> no?

Yes. That's what I mean by 'shared library' - .dll on Windows and .so on 
Linux. Those are the files that Derelict loads. But it's not just the 
SDL extensions, it's for all the libraries that Derelict wraps - SDL, 
OpenGL, OpenAL, all of them.



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