Using Cairo library bindings on Windows

[KillerSponge]

Hi all,

I'm fairly new to D, but so far everything has been going pretty 
smooth. I come from a C(++) background under Linux, so I'm used 
to having to specify the name of the needed .so, and the include 
directory of the headers when using an external library.

I am now trying to build a small D application on Windows to play 
around with Cairo, the graphics library. I found D bindings for 
it in the Deimos repository 
(https://github.com/D-Programming-Deimos/cairo), downloaded the 
dll files from de Cairo website (zlib, libcairo and libpng) and 
put them in the working directory of the project.

When I try to compile the example.d from the Cairo bindings with 
rdmd without specifying anything, I get (as I would expect) a 
whole bunch of "error 42: undefined symbol" errors. But, when I 
try to specify the dll by adding "-L 
{working_dir}\\libcairo-2.dll", I get an "Error 43: Not a Valid 
Library File" message.

I have tried to use the .lib files (which also gives error 43), 
and even tried to convert them using implib, which just results 
in the same bunch of error 42s (at least it's a valid library, I 
suppose?)

As I mentioned, I'm quite new to all this, so it might be 
something really obvious I'm missing, but I'm totally stumped at 
this point. Does anyone here maybe have any idea what the problem 
could be? :)