Windows MinGW and DMD

[Mike Parker]

On Friday, 28 September 2012 at 18:10:36 UTC, David wrote:
> So I want to make the compilation of my little game work on 
> Windows, I set up MinGW with Msys and ran the makefile, after a 
> few fixes compilation worked, the problem is linking fails hard.
>
> I need a few external libraries in C like glfw3 and openssl, 
> latter I installed with `mingw-get install msys-libopenssl` and 
> I compiled glfw3 with the makfile and gcc.
>
> Now how can I link this all together? I have .a static libs 
> (which are .lib libs, after renaming?) and .o files from gcc (I 
> have a few C files) and .obj files from dmd.
> I hope you can help me out, because I have no idea how that 
> kind of stuff works on Windows and I heared it's a real mess 
> with OMF and COFF.
>
> Thanks.


IIRC, MinGW uses the COFF format, which is the same format used 
by the Microsoft tools. The DMD toolchain currently is OMF only. 
You might be able to use coff2omf without any extra steps[1], but 
I'm not sure what version of COFF MinGW uses. I would really 
recommend using DerelictGLFW3 in this case and just build glfw3 
as a shared lib. But I don't know of any similar binding for 
OpenSSL.

[1] http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/coff2omf.html