Simple I know, but could use some help compiling with make

[Roderick Gibson]

On 9/29/2011 1:02 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:28:56 -0400, Roderick Gibson <kniteli at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 9/29/2011 11:52 AM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>>> On 9/29/11, Steven Schveighoffer<schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:32:28 -0400, Andrej Mitrovic
>>>> <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> No it's not the same for Windows. On Windows you have to use -L+,
>>>>> e.g.:
>>>>>
>>>>> dmd myfile.d -L+path/to/libs mylib.lib
>>>>
>>>> That's because +path/to/libs is the search-path parameter for
>>>> OPTLINK. -L
>>>> goes before all linker parameters. The same is for Linux.
>>>>
>>>> See here: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/dmd-windows.html
>>>>
>>>> -Steve
>>>>
>>>
>>> Right, I misinterpreted the "same for Windows" part, you were
>>> referring to -L and you're right.
>>>
>>> DMD could do some magic and replace -L-L with -L+ on Windows to
>>> simplify cross-platform development. I know it sends everything after
>>> -L to the linker, but it could make one special case for this.
>>
>>
>> Thanks so much guys, it worked, although it looks like a mutated
>> wildebeest. For the interested:
>>
>> IMPORT = -IC:\Dlang\dmd2\src\ext\Derelict2\import
>> LIB_PATHS = -L+C:\Dlang\dmd2\src\ext\Derelict2\lib\\
>>
>> LIB_INCLUDES = DerelictSDL.lib DerelictGL.lib DerelictUtil.lib
>> DerelictGLU.lib
>>
>> all:
>> dmd src/main.d src/display.d src/renderdata.d src/vector2d.d $(IMPORT)
>> $(LIB_PATHS) $(LIB_INCLUDES)
>>
>> Yes, that is TWO backslashes and the empty line between paths and
>> includes is required. Could probably fix it but couldn't figure out
>> how to escape the backslash (to prevent it from escaping the newline).
>
> Can you just leave off the last backslash? Again, not too familiar with
> OPTLINK, so not sure.
>
> -Steve

Nope, because then the first backslash would be escaping the newline and 
the linker looks for Derelict2\lib.lib instead of Derelict2\lib\.