On Saturday, 4 February 2023 at 15:56:41 UTC, Richard (Rikki)
Andrew Cattermole wrote:
On Windows you don't link directly against a DLL.
You link against a static library (.lib) of the same name.
The binding doesn't change between a static library and a
shared library as long as you're linking during the compilation
sequence and not during runtime.
I don't understand why the compiler doesn't see the library.
```sh
User@WIN-D3SHRBHN7F6 MINGW64 /home/user/pxe-restore/source
# ls -la "C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\15\lib\libpq.lib"
-rw-r--r-- 1 User Отсутствует 37002 Nov 9 06:45 'C:\Program
Files\PostgreSQL\15\lib\libpq.lib'
User@WIN-D3SHRBHN7F6 MINGW64 /home/user/pxe-restore/source
# dmd -i app.d -L'C:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\15\lib\libpq.lib'
lld-link: error: could not open 'pq.lib': no such file or
directory
Error: linker exited with status 1
```