Linking C libraries with DMD

[jmh530 via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 22 January 2016 at 00:43:05 UTC, W.J. wrote:
>
> The GNU linker ld, for instance, uses the -l<libname> switch 
> for adding libraries to link against and -L<path> to add a 
> search path to look for the libraries passed in with 
> -l<libname>.
>
> If you leave it to the compiler to invoke the linker you need 
> to remember the -L compiler switch is passing what follows to 
> the linker (minus the -L compiler switch).
> I.e. -L-LC:\lib\path will be passed on as "-LC:\lib\path", 
> -L-lsomelib => "-lsomelib", etc.

The -L-L stuff from the LearningD book is making more sense. The 
book is using Linux examples, linux uses ld, which has those 
flags.

>> LNK1136 is for a corrupt or abnormally small file. I did 
>> notice that the original dll was 82kb and the lib file was 2kb.
>
> The lib for a 'DLL' is small because it just tells the linker 
> where to find the code in the 'DLL' - the actual code is in the 
> 'DLL'.
>
> Hope the helps

That's clear. Thanks.