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.
