-libpath?

[Jonathan Marler]

On Tuesday, 6 February 2018 at 17:49:33 UTC, Jonathan Marler 
wrote:
> What do people think of adding an argument to DMD to add 
> library search paths?  Currently the only way I know how to do 
> this would be via linker-specific flags, i.e.
>
> GCC: -L-L/usr/lib
> MSVC: -L-libpath:C:\mylibs
> OPTLINK: -L+C:\mylibs\
>
> NOTE: the optlink version only works if no .def file is 
> specified.  If you have a .def file, then you can't add any 
> library search paths :)
>
> If we added a new "linker-independent" flag to dmd, then you 
> could add paths using the same interface regardless of which 
> linker you are using.  I'd expect the argument to be something 
> like:
>
> -libpath=<some-path>
>
> The disadvantage is it would be another command line option 
> added to DMD.  If there is general agreement that this is a 
> desirable feature, I'll go ahead and implement it.

no one responded to this, but I thought I would bump this to the 
front page to double check if there is any interest in this 
feature.