Linking C libraries with DMD

[bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 21 January 2016 at 23:07:06 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> I ran
>
> dmd -m64 <file>.d -L/LIBPATH:<path to lib> -L<library name>
>
> and got
>
> <library name> : fatal error LNK1136: invalid or corrupt file
> --- errorlevel 1136
>
> At least that's progress.
>
> LNK1136 is for a corrupt or abnormally small file. I did notice 
> that the original dll was 82kb and the lib file was 2kb.

Have you used pragma(lib)? https://dlang.org/spec/pragma.html#lib 
  There's also a section on it in Learning D.

I don't use Windows much, but when I link to a dll, that's what I 
do. I've actually never used -L options on Windows. If I want to 
call functions from R.dll, I use implib /system R.lib R.dll to 
create R.lib. Then I put pragma(lib, "R.lib"); in my .d file and 
compile.