Anyone using glad?

Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-learn digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Tue Jan 12 17:14:39 PST 2016


On Tuesday, 12 January 2016 at 19:16:51 UTC, Jason Jeffory wrote:
> So, I finally got it to work by abandoning demios and static 
> linking. Derelict + dynamic linking worked with only about a 
> min of problems(copying the proper dll to the correct place).

Every operating system has a well-defined search path for dynamic 
libraries. On Windows, the first location searched is the 
directory in which the executable resides. That's usually the 
simplest place to put it. When working with dub, I usually set a 
targetPath directive to "bin" in the configuration, so my project 
tree looks something like this:

- project
--bin
--source
--dub.sdl

Then I dump all of the DLLs I need in the bin directory. On other 
platforms, it's customary for libraries to be installed in 
standard system paths,  but on windows all but "system" libraries 
(such as the Win32 libs and OpenGL) are usually shipped with the 
app.

Derelict allows you to specify the path to the libraries you need 
to load. So you can, for example, put your glfw3.dll in a 
subdirectory off of the bin directory, or change the name. Then 
you would load it, for example, like so:

DerelictGLFW3.load("dlls/glfw3_32.dll");

In this case, it doesn't matter which compiler or linker was used 
to build the DLL. It could have been built with GCC, VC, or DMC.  
The COFF/OMF issue disappears here.


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