Linking external *.lib files

[Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Saturday, 17 June 2017 at 00:37:18 UTC, Jolly James wrote:

>>> Unfortunately, the public DUB package requires to be linked 
>>> with the libs from pkgBASE/lib. What do I have to add to 
>>> pkgBASE's dub.json?
>>
>> Side-note: the lib/ should not be moved for portability 
>> reasons if this is possible
>
>
>
> My bad solution:
>
>
> 	"lflags": [
> 		"-Llib\\"
> 	],
>
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>
> but this requires the lib folder to be part of pkgAPP, not 
> pkgBASE where I would like to have it. Does anyone have an idea?

Replace the lflags directive with this in the pkgBase dub.json:

"libs": [
     "$PACKAGE_DIR/libs/foo"
]