linker warnings and errors with bindbc-glfw

[Dennis]

On Friday, 9 November 2018 at 19:40:15 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> When you link statically with a library, you have to link with 
> all of its dependencies, too. For GLFW, you'll need User32.lib, 
> gdi32.lib, and OpenGL32.lib, off the top of my head.

Aha. Now I wonder why LDC includes those dependencies and dmd 
doesn't.

On Friday, 9 November 2018 at 19:40:15 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> Any particular reason you want to avoid the DLL?

Perhaps these are superficial reasons, but I just like the idea 
of static libraries more.
- No run-time linking errors (dll not found, different version)
- No function pointer loading and dereference overhead
- On Windows, you tend to end up redistributing the needed .dll's 
anyway

It seemed really simple, and on LDC it was. But if I'm about to 
open a big can of worms then I could stick to the dll, at least 
for dmd.

On the other hand, I would really want to understand how all of 
this works. So I'm going to paint how I picture this in my head:

Windows ships with:
- Windows API DLL's (gdi32.dll, user32.dll etc.)
- A dynamic C runtime library msvcrt.dll

dmd ships with:
- D headers for Windows and standard C functions
- import libraries for linking to Windows dll's containing those 
functions
- An OMF-linker
- The DMC C runtime library? (IIRC, can't identify it in the lib 
folder)

Microsoft Visual C contains:
- C headers for Windows and standard C functions
- import libraries
- A COFF-linker
- A static C runtime library libc.lib (single threaded) and 
libcmt.lib (multi-threaded)

Now the issue is that glfw is compiled in a way that it expects 
the dynamic c runtime, but D compilers default to the static one. 
So should tell the D compiler to use -mscrtlib=msvcrt or else it 
will generate warnings and maybe crash (in the case of LLD).

The other issue is that glfw expects the import libraries for 
Windows are linked in, which LDC does automatically, but dmd 
doesn't in my configuration for some reason.

Is that a correct summary?